AUTOBIOGRAPHIES 
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Of the President, Cabinet, Supreme Court 
AND Fifty-fifth Congress. /// Txo yoiumes 



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In publishing the Biographies and Portraits of the 
leaders of the great political movements of the first half 
of the McKinley Administration, the Publishers desire to 
heartily thank the President, the various members of his 
Cabinet, of the Supreme Court, and of the Congress, for 
their hearty cooperation and assistance, which has made 
this work possible. Almost without exception they have 
given their unqualified support and unstinted praise of 
our efforts to give to the public and to posterity, in an 
attractive and durable form, authentic accounts of the 
leaders of the movements to be classed with the stirring 
events which led to the Declaration of Independence and 
the establishing of the greatest nation and the greatest 
government in the world. 

We regret that it is impossible to issue such works 
treating of the Congress which declared the Independence 
of the United States, or of the legislators and officers of 
the first Administration, or of the leadei's of the period 
of the Civil War. Such works would be of vast value, 
as, we believe, this book is and will always be. Owing 
to the lapse of time it cannot be done. 

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being absent in Europe and in our new dependencies, and 
to the fact that various gentlemen were too much en- 
gaged in public affairs to devote the necessary time to 
the preparation of their autobiographies, in many instances 
they were obliged to have their biographies written by 
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THE PRESIDENT AND CABINET 




WILLIAM Mckinley 



WILLIAM Mckinley 



William McKinley, President, was born at Niles, Trum- 
bull County, Ohio. January 29, 1843; was educated in the 
public schools. Poland Academy, and Allegheny College; 
before attaining his majority he taught in the public 
schools ; enlisted as a private in the Twenty-Third Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry June 11, 1861; promoted to com- 
missary-sergeant April 15, 1862, to second lieutenant 
September 23, 1802. to first lieutenant February 7, 1863. 
to captain July 25, 1864 ; served successively on the staffs 
of Generals R. B. Hayes, Ceorge Crook, and Wintield S. 
Hancock, and was brevetted major in the United States 
Volunteers by President Lincoln for gallantry in battle 
March 13, 1865; detailed as acting assistant adjutant-gen- 
eral of the First Division, First Army Corps, on the staff 
of Gen. S. S. Carroll : mustered out of the service July 26, 
1865 ; returning to civil life, he studied law in Mahoning 
County; took a course at the Albany (N. Y.) Law School, 
and in 1867 was admitted to the bar and settled at Canton. 
Ohio, whicli has since been his home ; in 1869 he was 
elected prosecuting attorney of Stark (Jounty. and served 
a term in that office : in 1876 was elected a member of 
the National House of Representatives, and for fourteen 
years represented the congressional district of which his 
county was a part; as chairman of the Ways and Means 
Committee he reported the tariff' law of 1890, but in 
November following was defeated for Congress in a gerry- 
mandered district, although reducing the usual adverse 



WILLIAM MCKTNLEY 

majority from 3,(100 to 300; in 1891 was elected governor 
of Ohio by a plurality of 21,511, and in 1893 was reelected 
by a plurality of 80,995 ; in 1884 was a delegate at large 
to the Republican national convention and supported 
James G. Blaine for President ; was a member of the 
committee on resolutions and read the platform to the 
convention; in 18S.S was also a delegate at large from 
Ohio, supporting John Sherman, and as chairman of the 
committee on resolutions again reported the platform ; in 
1892 was again a delegate at large from Ohio, and sup- 
ported the renomination of Benjamin Harrison, and served 
as chairman of the convention. At that convention 182 
votes were cast for him for President, although he had 
persistently refused to have his name considered. On 
June 18, 189(5, he was nominated for President at St. Louis, 
receiving 661 out of a total of 905 votes. In 1896 William 
McKinley was elected President of the United States. His 
administration will go down to history as famous for the 
maintenance of the gold standard, for the passage of the 
Dingley tariff bill, for the annexation of Hawaii, for 
the passage of the resolutions declaring the independence 
of Cuba, and for the war with Spain which resulted. 




JOHN SHERMAN 



JOHN SHERMAN 



John Sherman, of Ohio, was born in Lancaster, that 
State, May 10, 1S23. He is of Anglo-Saxon ancestry, and 
for generations the Sherman family has been noted for 
the many celebrated men it has produced. John Sherman 
received an academic education, studied law, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar May 11, 1844. He was a delegate to 
the national Whig conventions of 1848 and 1852, and pre- 
sided over the hrst Republican convention in Ohio in 
1855 ; was a Representative in the Thirty-Fourth. Thirty- 
Fifth, Thirty-Sixth, and Thirty-Seventh Congresses, and 
was the ReiJublican candidate for Speaker in the winter 
of 1859 60. He was elected to the United States Senate 
in March, 1861, and reelected in 1866 and 1872. In Max'ch, 
1877, he was apiJointed Secretary of the Treasury, and 
served as such during President Hayes's administi'ation. 
He was elected to the United States Senate in 1880, and 
was reelected in 1886, 1892. He w-as president of the 
Senate from December 7, 1885, until February 26, 1887 ; 
resigned his seat in the Senate to accept the position of 
Secretary of State in President McKinley's cabinet, and 
was confirmed by the Senate March 5. 1897. In the spring 
of the year following he resigned his position as Secretary 
of State, owing to his advanced years and to the added 
burdens which the approaching war with Spain would put 
upon him. Before retiring from active participation in 
public life, he compiled ''John Sherman's Recollections of 
Forty Years in the House, Senate, and Cabinet," a work 
exceedingly interesting and instructive. 




JOHN HAY 



JOHN HAY 



John Hay. of the District of Oolumbia, Secretary of 
State, was born in Salem, liid., Octol)er S, 1838 ; graduated 
at Brown University in 1858, and studied law in Springfield, 
ill.; was admitted to practice before the supreme court of 
Illinois in 18G1, but immediately came to Washington as 
assistant secretary to President Lincoln, remaining with 
him until his death ; acted also as his adjutant and aid- 
de-camp, and served under Generals Hunter and Gillmore, 
and was brevetted colonel ; was appointed secretary of 
legation to France j\larch 2"2, 1865 ; retired March 18. 18(>7 ; 
appointed secretary of legation to Austria-Hungary May 
20, 18()7; retired August 12, 18(>8 ; appointed secretary of 
legation to Spain Junp 28. I8(il) ; retired October 1, 1870 ; 
then became an editorial writer on the New York Tribune, 
remaining five years, during seven months of which he 
was editor-in-chief; removed to Cleveland in 1875 and 
took an active part in the ijresidential canvasses of 1876, 
1880, and 1884 ; was appointed Assistant Secretary of State 
November 1, 1879; retired May 3, 1881; in that year he 
represented the TTnited States at the International Sani- 
tary Congress in Washington, of which he was president; 
was appointed ambassador extraordinary and plenipoten- 
tiary to Great Britain March \\), 181)7 ; retired September 
ly, 1898; appointed Secretary of State September 20, 1898. 




LYMAN J. GAGE 



LYMAN J. GAGE 



Lyman J. Gage, of Chicago, II L, Secretary of the Treas- 
ury, was born in Deruyter, Madison County, N. Y., June 28, 
1836; received a common-school education in his native 
county, but, his parents removing to Rome, N. Y., in 1848, 
he there received the advantages of the Rome Academy ; 
entered the banking business in the lowest position at the 
age of eighteen ; going West in 1855 to seek a betterment in 
fortune, after some trials he obtained in 1858 a bookkeep- 
er's position in the Merchants' Loan and Trust Company, 
of Chicago ; his promotion was rapid ; in 1868 he was 
cashier of the bank ; believing that the national banking 
system was superior to the State law, under which the 
Merchants' Loan and Trust Company was organized, he 
accepted the appointment as cashier of the First National 
Bank of Chicago in the year 1868 ; its charter expiring, 
the bank was reorganized in 1882, with a capital of $3,000,- 
000, and Mr. Gage was made vice-president and general 
manager, and in 1891 he was elected president ; has never 
held political office, though often pressed to allow his 
name to be used, notably for the office of mayor of Chi- 
cago ; on February 15, 1897, he resigned the presidency of 
the bank in order to accept the portfolio of the United 
States Treasury ; was appointed March 4 and confirmed by 
the Senate March 5, 1897, and immediately entered upon 
the discharge of his duties as Secretary of the Treasury. 




RUSSELL A. ALGER 



RUSSELL ALEXANDER ALGER 

Russell Alexander Algeh, of Michigan. Secretary of 
War. was born in the township of Lafayette, Medina 
County, Ohio, February 27, LS3(i. His parents. Russell Alger 
and Caroline Moulton. were from New England stock 
whose ancestry were Scotch and English : was educated at 
the Richfield Academy in Richfield. Summit County, Ohio, 
attending the autumn and winter teriiLS. working on a 
farm by the month the renuiinder of the year to enable 
him to do so : taught school two winters ; studied law 
with Wolcott & Upson at Akron, Ohio, during 1S57 and 
1858 and in 18")il until admitted to the bar; practiced law 
but a little time: removed to Michigan January 1. ISfiO; 
commenced lumbering in a small way on borrowed capital; 
at the breaking out of the war he enlisted in the volun- 
teer service September 2, 18(51. and mustered into service 
to date October 2. 1861, as captain. Second Michigan Cav- 
alry ; was promoted to be major of the same regiment to 
take effect from April 17. 1S()2. lieutenant-colonel of the 
Sixth Michigan Cavalry October 30, 18(52. and colonel of 
the Fifth Michigan Cavalry June 11. 18(53; resigned Sep- 
tember 16. and was discharged September 20. 1864 ; was 
severely wounded at the battle of Boonsboro. Md., July 8, 
1863, and received the brevet commissions of brigadier- 
general and major-general of volunteers for gallant and 
meritorious services during the war ; returned to Michigan 
at the close of the war. and with borrowed capital reen- 
gaged in the lumbering business, which has steadily 
increased year by year in volume ; has extensive l)usiness 
interests of various kinds in other States than Michigan ; 
was governor of his State for the years 1885 and 1886 ; 
was appointed Secretary of War March 5, 1897, and con- 
firmed the same day. 




JOHN W. GRIGGS 



JOHN WILLIAM GRIGGS 



John William (triggs, of Paterson, N. J., Attorney- 
Geueral, was born at Newton, N. J., July 10, 1849 ; was 
prepared for college in his native town and was gradu- 
ated from Lafayette College in lS(jS; was admitted to the 
bar in 1871, and began the practice of the law at Pater- 
son in that year ; was member of the general assembly of 
the State of New Jersey in 1876 and 1877 ; was elected 
State senator for Passaic in 1882 for a term of three years, 
and was reelected in 1885 for a second term ; was presi- 
dent of the senate of New Jersey in 1886 ; was elected 
governor of New Jersey on the Republican ticket Novem- 
ber, 1895, and inaugurated as governor January, 1896 ; was 
appointed Attorney-General by President McKinley to suc- 
ceed Hon. Joseph McKenna. who resigned to accept a seat 
on the Bench of the United States Supreme Court; was 
confirmed by the Senate January 25, 1898 ; resigned the 
office of governor January 31, and took his oath of office 
as Attorney-General on that day. 




JAMES A. GARY 



JAMES ALBERT GARY 



James Albert Gary, of Maryland, Postmaster-General, 
was born in Uncasville. Conn., of Puritan ancestry ; 
was educated at Rockhill Institute. Maryland, and Alle- 
gheny College, Pennsylvania ; removed with his parents 
from the place of his birth to Maryland in 1840; became 
a partner with his father in the Alberton Cotton Mills, 
located at Alberton. in 1S(U ; his father dying in 1870 he 
succeeded to the head of the business and has conducted 
it since ; was nominated as a Whig for the State senate 
in 1858. and was defeated ; w'as one of the three delegates 
from his county to the Union convention in 18(U at the 
Maryland Institute, and cast his entire influence for the 
Union cause : was a delegate to the national Republican 
convention at Philadelphia in 1S72 ; was nominated by the 
Repul)licans for Congress that yeai-, and was defeated; was 
a delegate to the national Repulilican conventions of 1876, 
1880, 1884, 1892, and 1SI)6: is vice-president of the Citizens' 
National Bank of Baltimore, of the Consolidated (las 
Company of Baltimore, a director in the American Fire 
Insurance Company, in the Baltimore Trust and Guarantee 
Company, in the Savings Bank of Baltimore, and is con- 
nected witli various other corporations and enterprises; 
was confirmed as Postmaster-General March ">, 1897, He 
resigned his position as Postmaster-General in 1898, owing 
to ill health, which the arduous duties of his office appeared 
to aggravate. 




CHARLES E. SMITH 



CHARLES EMORY SMITH 



Charles Emory Smith, of Pennsylvania, Postmaster- 
General, was born in ^Manstield. Conn., in 1842; removed 
with his parents to Ailiany, X. Y., when he was a child ; 
was edncated at the Albany Academy and at Union College, 
Schenectady. N. Y.; was actively engaged during the Civil 
War as aid to General Kathlione. under the war governor, 
Morgan, in raising and organizing Union volunteer regi- 
ments ; became editor of the Albany Express in 1865, joint 
editor of the Albany Emiinf/ Joitnid/ in 1870. and in 1877 
sole editor: was delegate to the Eepublican national 
convention in 187(), and was secretai-y of the platform 
committee ; in 1878 was elected regent of the university 
by the legislature of New York ; was delegate to Repub- 
lican State conventions in New York for several successive 
yeai-s. and was invariably chairman of the committee on 
resolutions and author of the platform ; in 1880 removed 
to Philadelphia and became editor of the Press; was 
appointed minister to Russia by President Harrison in 
1890, which ofhce he resigned after having served two 
years ; was active in the relief work of the great Russian 
famine in 1891 and 1892 while in Russia, and had charge 
of American contrilnitions of over $100,000 in money and 
five shiploads of food ; has delivered numerous public, 
political, and literary addresses; was nominated and con- 
firmed as Postmaster-General April 21. 1898. 




JOHN D. LONG 



JOHN DAVIS LONG 



John Davis Long, of Massacliusetts. Secretary of the 
Navy, was born in Biickfielcl. Oxford County. Me.. October 
27, LS38 ; re'ceived bis preparatory education in the common 
school of his native town and the Hebron Academy, Maine ; 
was graduated from Harvard in 1857 ; taught school two 
years in Westford Academy, Massachusetts ; studied law at 
Harvard Law School and in private offices ; was admitted 
to the bar. and has since practiced ; was a member of the 
Massachusetts legislature in 1S75, 1876, 1877, and 1878; 
was speaker of the house during the last three years ; was 
lieutenant-governor of his State in 1879, and governor in 
1880, 1881, and 1882; was elected to the Forty-Eighth and 
reelected to the Forty-Ninth and Fiftieth Congresses ; was 
for several years on the State-house construction commission 
of his State ; is senior member of the law firm of Long & 
Hemenway; was appointed and confirmed Secretary of the 
Navy March 5, 1897. 




CORNELIUS N. BLISS 



CORNELIUS N. BLISS 



Cornelius N. Bliss, uf New York, Secretary of the 
Interior, was born in Fall River. Mass., January 26, 1833 ; 
was educated in public schools and academy at Fall River 
and the high school at New Orleans ; after leaving the 
latter was for a year in his stepfather's counting room in 
New Orleans, and then removed to Boston and entered as 
a young clerk the house of I. M. Beebe, Morgan & Co.; in 
1866 became a meml)er of the firm of J. S. and E. Wright 
& Co., a commission house of Boston, and removed to New 
York to take charge of the business of the firm in that 
city ; the firm name became Bliss, Fabyan »t Co. in 1.S81 : 
is in the directories of many financial institutions ; was a 
member of the Pan-American Conference ; was president 
of the Protective Tariff League ; was chairman of the 
Republican State committees. New York, of 1HS7 and 1S88 ; 
was treasurer of the national Repul)lican committees in 
LS92 and 1896 ; declined to be a candidate for the nomina- 
tion for governor of his State in 1885, and refused to have 
his name presented to the convention for that position in 
1891 ; was appointed Secretary of the Interior March 5, 
1897, and was confirmed by the Senate March 5. 1897. 




JAMES WILSON 



JAMES WILSON 



James Wilson, of Traer, Tama County, Iowa, Secretary 
of Agriculture, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, August 16, 
1835 ; in 1852 he came to the United States, settling in 
Connecticut with his parents; in 1S5") he went to Iowa, 
locating in Tama County, where, as early as 1801. he 
engaged in farming on his own account ; was elected to 
the State legislature, and served in tne twelfth, thirteenth, 
and fourteenth general assemblies, being speaker of the 
house in the last-mentioned assembly ; was elected to Con- 
gress in 1872, and served in the Forty-Third, Forty-Fourth, 
and Forty-Eighth Congresses ; in the interim l)etween the 
Forty-Fourth and Forty-Eighth Congresses served as a 
member of the Railway Commission; from 1870 to 1874 
was a regent of the State University, and for the past six 
years has been director of the agricultural experiment 
station and professor of agriculture at the Iowa Agricul- 
tural College at Ames ; during his entire public life he has 
controlled and directed the management of his own farm, 
and in every public office he has held has been elected or 
appointed as a representative farmer, whether in the leg- 
islature, on the Railroad Commission, in Congress, or at 
the college ; while in Congress he was always a member 
of the Committee on Agriculture of the House, and was 
very early identified with legislation making the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture an Executive Department; introduced 
and secured the passage of a bill to that end in the 
Forty-Third Congress ; later he worked in earnest cooper- 
ation with the late W. H. Hatch, of Missouri, for legislation 
for the suppression of contagious diseases, under which 
the much-dreaded contagious pleuro-pneumonia was effec- 
tually eradicated from the United States by the Bureau of 
Animal Industry of the Department over which he now 
presides ; was confirmed Secretary of Agriculture March 
5, 181)7. 




JOHN A. PORTER 



JOHN ADDISON PORTER 



John Addison Porter was born at New Haven, Conn., 
April 17, 1856; is the eldest son of Prof. John Addison 
Porter, a scientist of note and the first Dean of the Sheffield 
Scientific School of Yale University. Prof. Porter married 
Miss Josephine Earl Sheffield, daughter of the founder of 
that institution ; was educated at Gen. Eussell's Colle- 
giate and Commercial Institute in New Haven, and at the 
Hopkins Grammar School of that city, where he took a 
course in the classics, previous to entering Yale University ; 
was graduated from the academical department of Yale 
in the class of 1H7S, having devoted particular attention 
while in college to literary work, in which he took a 
high rank in his class. After leaving college, Mr. Porter 
studied for the bar at Cleveland. Ohio, in the office of his 
uncle, Mr. William J. Boardman. who was for many years 
one of the leading attorneys of that city. Mr. Porter did 
not enter upon the study of the law, however, with the 
intention of practicing, but preparatory to newspaper work. 
In 1880 he was a member of the local staffs of the New 
Haven (Ct.) Dai hi Palladium and Hartford (Ct.) Couranf, and 
was a fretpient contriliutor to the New Eiu/laiirlrr. Critic, 
Century, and other leading magazines. In 1883 Mr. Porter 
was married to Miss Amy H Betts, the eldest daughter 
of the late Colonel George F. Betts, of New York City, whose 
father. Judge Betts. was in his day one of the most eminent 
authorities u})OU admiralty law. The Betts family is well 
known socially in New York, being connected by descent and 
marriage with a number of the most prominent of the older 



JOHN ADDISON PORTER 

families of the metropolis. Mr. Porter resided in Washington 
between 1884 and 1888. during the latter part of which period 
he was in close touch on matters of politics with his uncle, 
the late William Walter Phelps, member of Congress from 
New Jersey, and ex-minister to Austria and Germany. 
During one session of Congress he served as clerk to 
one of the senate committees, to which he was appointed 
by Senator Piatt, of Connecticut ; he was also engaged, 
during part of this time, in literary work, including the 
authorship of an attractive volume entitled. "Sketches of 
Yale Life." a book of some three hundred pages, which 
was very favorably received. In ISSS Mr. Porter purchased 
a part interest in the Hartford (Ct.) Evcnituj Post, an old 
and leading Republican newspaper of that city. Two 
years subsequently he secured a controlling interest in 
the Post, and has since conducted the paper, as editor-in- 
chief, on stalwart Republican lines and with an added 
reputation and increased circulation and patronage. Mr. 
Porter was chosen in 1891 to reiiresent the town of Pom- 
fret in the popular branch of the Counecticut general as- 
sembly, and during the famous "deadlock" legislature took 
an active part in the leadership of the party. He was 
elected as a delegate to the Repul)lican national conven- 
tion at Minneapolis, where he advocated the renomination 
of President Harrison. On several occasions Mr. Porter 
has been a candidate for the governorship of Connecticut, 
and in two successive campaigns has received a majority 
of the votes cast at the primaries. Mr. Porter was ap- 
pointed Secretary to the President in February. 1897. He 
is a member f)f numerous social and fraternal organiza- 
tions, including the highest grades of the Masonic order. 



THE SUPREME COURT OF THE 
UNITED STATES 




MELVILLE W. FULLER 



MELVILLE WESTON FULLER 



Melville Weston Fuller, Chief Justice of the United 
Spates, was born in Augusta, Me., February 11, 1888; was 
graduated from Bowdoin College in 1858 ; studied law, 
attended a course of lectures at Harvard Law School, and 
was admitted to the bar in 1855 ; formed a law partnership 
in Augusta, Me., and was an associate editor of a Demo- 
cratic paper called Tlie Age; in 1S5() liecame president of 
the common council, and served as city solicitor; removed 
to Chicago, 111., in 1S56, where he practiced law until ap- 
pointed Chief Justice ; in 18(52 was a meml)er of the State 
constitutional convention ; was a member of the State 
legislature from 1863 to 1865 ; was a delegate to the Dem- 
ocratic national conventions of 1864. 1872, 1876, and 1880; 
the degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by the North- 
western LTniversity and by Bowdoin College in 1888. and 
by Harvard in 1890 ; was appointed Chief Justice April 30, 
1888, confirmed July 20, 1888, and took the oath of office 
October 8, same year. 




STEPHEN J. FIELD 



STEPHEN JOHNSON FIELD 



Stephen Johxsox Field, Associate Justice of the L'uited 
States Supreme Court, was born at Haddam. Conn., No- 
vember 4. 1S1(); removed with liis hiniily in 1S]'.> to 
Stockl)ridge. Mass., where he spent ten years of his l)oy- 
hood : in l.S2y accompanied his sister to Asia Minor, her 
husband. Rev. Josiah Brewer, having undertaken an educa- 
tional mission to the Greeks ; remained two and a half 
years, for the most part iu Smyrna and Athens, and 
learned to speak and write the modern (ireek language; 
graduated from Williams College in ISo? ; began the study 
of law in 1838. in the office of David Dudley Field, and in 
1841 became his partner and so remained for seven years ; 
in 1S4S traveled extensively in Europe ; returning 4Vom 
Europe, started for California in November, 1849, arriving 
there Decemlier 28, 1841) ; located in Marysville in January, 
1850. and was elected first alcalde of that city ; under 
Mexican law the alcalde was an officer of limited jurisdic- 
tion. l)ut in the anomalous condition of affairs he was 
called upon to administer justice, punish crime, and to 
enforce necessary police regulations until relieved by 
officers under the new constitution ; was elected to the 
second legislature, and was a member of the judiciary 
committee and framed the laws creating the judicial sys- 
tem of that State: from IS.")] to 1^57 he practiced his 
profession, and was then elected a judge of the supreme 
court for six years, from January 1, 1858 ; a vacancy oc- 
curring on the bench, he was appointed judge to fill it on 
the 18th of October, 1857; became chief justice in I85i) ; in 
1863 was appointed by President Lincoln to his present 
position ; in 1866 Williams College conferred upon him the 
degree of LL. D. 




JOHN M. HARLAN 



JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN 



John Marshall Harlan. Associate Justice of the United 
States Sui^reme Court, was born in Boyle County, Ky., 
June 1, LS33 ^ was graduated from Center College, Ken- 
tucky, in 1850 ; studied law at Transylvania LIniversity ; 
practiced his profession at Frankfort ; was elected county 
judge in 1S5S ; was elector on the Bell and Everett ticket ; 
removed to Louisville and formed a law partnership with 
Hon. W. F. Bullock : in LS61 raised the Tenth Kentucky 
Infantry Regiment and served in Gen. George H. Thomas's 
division ; owing to the death of his father in the spring 
of 1863, although his name was before the Senate for con- 
firmation as a brigadier-general, he felt compelled to re- 
sign ; was elected attorney-general by the Union party in 
1863 and filled the office until 1867, when he returned to 
active practice in Louisville ; was the Republican nominee 
for governor in 1871 ; his name was presented by the Re- 
publican convention of his State in 1875 for the vice- 
presidency ; was chairman of the delegation from his State 
to the national Republican convention in 1876; declined 
a diplomatic position as a substitute for the attorney- 
generalship, to which, before he reached Washington, 
President Hayes intended to assign him : served as a mem- 
ber of the Louisiana commission ;• was commissioned an 
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court 
November 29, 1877. and took his seat December 10, same 
year. 




HORACE GRAY 



HORACE GRAY 



Horace Gray, Associate Justice of the Suijrenie Court 
of the United States, was born in Boston, Mass.. March 
24, 1828 ; was graduated from Harvard College in the class 
of 1845 and from the Harvard Law School in 1849; was 
admitted to the bar in 1851 : was appointed reporter of 
the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts in 1S54 and 
held the position until 1861 ; was appointed associate jus- 
tice of the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts August 
23, 1864, and chief justice of that court September 5, 
1873 : was commissioned an Associate Justice of the Su- 
preme Court of the United States by President Arthur 
December 19, 1881. 




DAVID J BREWER 



DAVID JOSIAH BREWER 



David Josiah Brewer. Associate Justice of the United 
States Supi-eme Court, was boi-n in Smj-rna, Asia Minor, 
June 20, 1837 ; is the son of Rev. Josiah Brewer and Emilia 
A. Field, sister of David Dudley, Cyrus W.. and Justice 
Stephen J. Field ; his father was an early missionary to 
Turkey; was graduated from Yale College in 1856 and 
from the Albany Law School in 1858; established himself 
in his profession at Leavenworth, Kan., in 1859, where he 
resided until he removed to Washington to enter upon 
his present duties: in 18(51 was appointed T'nited States 
commissioner ; from 1862 to 1865 was judge of the probate 
and criminal courts of Leavenworth County ; from 1865 
to 1869 was judge of the district court ; from 1869 to 1870 
was county attorney of Leavenworth ; in 1870 was elected 
a justice of the supreme court of his State, and reelected 
in 1876 and 1882: in 1884 w-as appointed judge of the 
Circuit Court of the United States for the eighth district; 
was appointed to his present position, to succeed Justice 
Stanley Matthew's, deceased, in December, 1889, and was 
commissioned December 18, 1889. 





GEORGE SHIRAS, JH. 



GEORGE SHIRAS. JR. 



George Shiras. Jr.. Associate Justice of the Supreme 
Court of the Ihiited States, was born in Pittsl)urg. Pa., 
January 26. lSo"2 ; was graduated from Yale College in 
1853 ; attended the Yale Law School in 1854 ; was admitted 
to the bar of Pennsylvania in 185B; practiced law in Penn- 
sylvania till his appointment to the Supi'eme Bench ; re- 
ceived the degree of LL. D. from Yale University in 1883 ; 
was one of the Pennsylvania presidential electors in 
1888 ; in July, 189'2. was appointed to succeed Justice Jo- 
seph P. Bradley : took the oath of office October 10, 1892. 



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EDWARD D. WHITE 



EDWARD DOUGLASS WHITE 



Edward Douglass White. Associate Justice of the Su- 
preme Court of the United States, was born in the parish 
of Lafourche, La., in November. 1845 ; was educated at 
Mount St. Mary's, near Emmitsburg. Md.. at the Jesuit 
College in New Orleans, and at Georgetown (D. C-.) College; 
served in the Confederate army; was licensed to practice 
law by the supreme court of Louisiana in r)ecember, 1868; 
electetl State senator in 1874 ; was appointed associate 
justice of the supreme court of Louisiana in 1878; was 
elected to the Lhiited States Senate as a Democrat, to 
succeed James B. Eustis, and took his seat March 4, 1S91 ; 
while serving his term as Senator from Louisiana was 
appointed, February U), 1894, an Associate Justice of the 
Supreme Court, and took his seat March 12, 1894. 




HENRY B. BROWN 



HENRY BILLINGS BROWN 



Henry Billings Brown. Associate Justice of the Supreme 
Court of the United States, was liorn iu South Lee. Mass., 
March 2. LS8() : was graduated from Yale College in 1856 ; 
studied law for some time in a private office ; attended 
lectures both at Yale and Harvard Law Schools, and was 
admitted to the bar of Wayne County. Mich., in July. LS(J() ; 
in the spring of ISOI, upon the election of Mr. Lincoln, 
was appointed deputy marshal of the tinited States, and 
subsequently assistant L'nited States attorney for the 
eastern district of Michigan, a position he held until 1868, 
when he was appointed judge of the State circuit coux't of 
Wayne County, to hll a vacancy: held this office but a 
few months, and then returned to active practice iu 
partnership with John S. Newberry and Ashley Pond, of 
Detroit, which continued until 1875, when he was appointed 
by President Grant district judge for the eastern district 
of Michigan, to succeed Hon. John W. Longyear ; on 
December 23, 1890, was appointed Associate Justice of the 
Supreme Court, to succeed Justice Samuel F. Miller; was 
unanimously confirmed December 29, and took the oath of 
office January 5, 1891 : received the degree of LL.D. from 
the University of Michigan in 1887 and from Yale Uni- 
versity in 1891. 




RUFUS W. PECKHAM 



RUFUS W. PECKHAM 



RuFus W. Peckham. Associate Justice of the Supreme 
Court of the T'uited States, was horn iu the city of Alhanj- 
and State of New York, Novemher S, 188S ; his father was 
a native of Alliany County, and had heen district attorney 
of the county, justice of the supreme court of the State. 
and, at the time of his death in the shipwreck of the 
Ville de Havre, Novemher 22, 1878, was one of the judges 
of the court of api^eals of New York State. The son was 
educated at the Albany Academy and at one of the 
.schools in Philadelphia ; he .studied law in the ottice of his 
father, who was then in partnership with Lyman Tremain, 
attorney-general of the State, practicing law under the 
firm name of Peckham & Tremain, iu the city of Albany ; 
he was admitted to the bar of the State in December, 
1859 ; his father was in that year elected to the bench of 
the supreme court, and the son formed a partnership with 
the former partner of his father, under the firm name of 
Tremain & Peckham, which continued until the death of 
Mr. Tremain in December, 1878. In 1866 Mr. Peckham 
was married to a daughter of D. H. Arnold, an old New 
York merchant and at that time president of the Mercan- 
tile Bank in New York City. In 1868 he was elected 
district attorney of Albany County ; was subsequently cor- 
poration counsel of Albany City, and in 1883 was elected 
a justice of the supreme court of the State. While serving 
as such he was elected, in 1886, an a.ssociate judge of the 
couit of appeals of New York State, and while occupying 
a seat on that bench he was. in December, 1895, appointed 
by President Cleveland an Associate Justice of the Supreme 
Court of the United States. 




JOSEPH McKENNA 



JOSEPH McKENNA 



Joseph McKenna, of San Francisco, Cal., Associate 
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was 
born in Philadelphia, Pa., August 10, 1843; attended St. 
Joseph's College of his native city until 1855, when he 
removed with his parents to Benicia, Cal., where he con- 
tinued his education at the public schools and the Collegiate 
Institute, at which he studied law ; was admitted to the 
bar in 1865 ; was twice elected district attorney for Solano 
County, beginning in March, 1S()(> ; served in the lower 
house of the legislature in the sessions of 1875 and 1876 ; 
was elected to the Forty-Ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-First, and 
Fifty-Second Congresses ; resigned from the last-named 
Congress to accept the position of Ihiited States circuit 
judge, to which he was appointed by President Harrison 
in 1893 ; resigned that office to accept the position of 
Attorney-General of the United States in the cabinet of 
President McKinley ; was appointed. December 16, 1897, 
an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United 
States to succeed Justice Field, retired, and took his seat 
January 26, 1898, 



UNITED STATES SENATE 




GARRET A. HOBART 



GARRET A. HOBART 



Garret A. Hobart was born in Monmouth County, N. J.. 
June 3, 1844; entered the Sophomore class of Rutgers Col- 
lege in liSGO, and graduated in 1S()8, at the age of 19 ; 
thereafter taught school until he entered the law office of 
Socrates Tuttle, of Paterson, N. J.; was admitted to the bar 
in LS69, and commenced the practice of law in the office 
of that gentleman; was clerk for the grand jury in 1865; 
city counsel of Paterson in 1871 ; was elected counsel for 
the board of chosen freeholders in May, 1872 ; entered the 
legislature in 1873, and was reelected to the assembly in 
1874, and was made speaker in 187G; was elected to the 
senate in 1879, and in 1881 was elected president of that 
body, and reelected in 1882 ; was a delegate at large to the 
Republican national convention in 1876. and was again 
chosen in 1880 ; was elected a member of the national 
committee in 1884 and served continuously until 1896. 
when he was nominated for Vice-President by the Repub- 
lican national convention, and was duly elected, and took 
the oath of office on March 4, 1897. 





NELSON W. ALDRICH 



NELSON W. ALDRICH 



Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, of I'rovidence, was born at 
Foster, R. I., November 6, 1841 ; received an academic edu- 
cation : is engaged in mercantile pursuits: was president 
of the Providence common council in lS71-7o ; was a 
member of the Rhode Island general assembly in 1875 7(>, 
serving the latter year as speaker of the house of repre- 
sentatives ; was elected to the House of Representatives of 
the Forty-Sixth and reelected to the Forty-Seventh Con- 
gress ; was elected to tlae United States Senate as a 
Republican, to succeed Amlirose E. Burnside, Repul)lican ; 
took his seat December 5. 1881. and was reelected in I88(i 
and in 1893. His term of service will expire March 8, 18i)i). 




WILLIAM V. ALLEN 



WILLIAM VINCENT ALLEN 



William Vincent Allen, of Madison, was boru in Mid- 
way, Madison County. Oliio, January 28, 1847; removed 
witli his family to Iowa in LS57 ; was educated in the 
common schools of Iowa and attended the Upper Iowa 
University at Fayette for a time, but was not graduated ; 
was a private soldier in Company CI, Thirty-Second Iowa 
Volunteer Infantry, during the War of the Rebellion, the 
last five months of his service lieing on the staff of (len. 
James I. Gilbert ; read law at West l^nion. Iowa, and was 
admitted to the bar May 31, 1869 ; practiced law from that 
time until elected judge of the district court of the ninth 
judicial district of Nebraska, in the autumn of 1891 ; re- 
moved from Iowa to Nebraska in 1884 ; was married Maj' 
2, 1870 ; was permanent president of the Nebraska Popu- 
list State convention in 1892, and was elected United 
States Senator, to succeed Algernon Sidney Paddock, Feb- 
ruary 7, 1893, for the full term of six years, commencing 
March 4, 1893. His term of service will expire March 3, 
1899. 




WILLIAM B. ALLISON 



WILLIAM BOYD ALLISON 



William Boyd Allison, of Dulnuiue, was horn at Perry, 
Ohio, March 2, 1821) ; was educated at the Western Reserve 
College, Ohio; studied law and practiced in Ohio until he 
removed to Iowa in LS57; served on the staff of the gov- 
ernor of Iowa and aided in organizing vohinteers in the 
beginning of the war for the suppression of the rebellion; 
was elected a Representative in the Thirty-Eighth. Thirty- 
Ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-First Congresses, and was 
elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, to 
succeed James Harlan, Republican ; took his seat March 4. 
1,S78, and was reelected in 1878, 1884. 1890. and lSi»7. His 
term of service will expire March 3. 1908. 




AUGUSTUS O. BACON 



AUGUSTUS OCTAVIUS BACON 



Augustus Octavius Bacon, of Macon, wa8 born in Bryan 
County, Ga.. October 20, 1839 ; received a high-school edu- 
cation in Liberty and Troup Counties ; graduated at the 
University of Georgia, in the Literary and Classical Depart- 
ment in 1S59. and in the Law Department in 1.S60 ; entered 
the Confederate army at the beginning of the war and 
served during the campaigns of 18(U and 1S62 as adjutant 
of the Ninth Georgia Regiment in the Army of Northern 
Virginia; subsequently thei'eto was commissioned as captain 
in the provisional army of the Confederate States and 
assigned to general staff duty : at the close of the war 
resumed the study of law, and began practice in 1S()() at 
Macon, from which date he has actively continued the 
same both in the State and Federal courts ; was frequently 
a member of State Democratic conventions ; was president 
of the State Democratic convention in ISSO, and was dele- 
gate from the State at large to the national Democratic 
convention in Chicago in 1834 ; in I8(i8 he was elected 
presidential elector (Seymour and Blair) on the Democratic 
ticket; in 1871 was elected to the Georgia house of repre- 
sentatives, of which body he has served as a member for 
fourteen years ; in this time, during two years he was the 
speaker pro fi'iii/xiir, and during eight years he was the 
speaker of the Georgia house of representatives ; was 
several times a candidate for the Democratic nomination 
for governor of Georgia, and in the Democratic State con- 
vention of 1883 he came within one vote of a nomination 
for governor, when the nomination was equivalent to an 
election ; was elected to the United States Senate as a 
Democrat, in November. 1894. for the term beginning 
March 4. 1895. His term of service will expire March 3. 
1901. 




LUCIEN BAKER 



LUCIEN BAKER 



LuciEN Baker, of Leavenworth, was born in Ohio in 
1846, and shortlj- thereafter removed with his parents to 
Michigan ; in 1S69 he removed to Kansas and settled in 
Leavenworth, where he has since resided, engaged in the 
practice of law ; was elected to the LTnited States Senate 
as a Republican in 1895. His term of service will expire 
March 3, 1901. 




WILLIAM B. BATE 



WILLIAM B. BATE 



William B. Bate, of Nashville, was born near Castalian 
Spring, Tenn., and received an academic education ; when 
quite a youth served as second clerk on a steamboat 
between Nashville and New Orleans; served as a private 
throughout the Mexican War in Louisiana and Tennessee 
regiments ; a year after returning from the Mexican War 
was elected to the Tennessee legislature ; graduated from 
the Lebanon Law School in LS52 and entered upon the 
practice of his profession at Gallatin, Tenn. ; in 1854 was 
elected attorney-general for the Nashville district for six 
years ; during his term of office was nominated for Con- 
gress, but declined; was a presidential elector in 1S60 on 
the Breckinridge-Lane ticket ; was private, captain, colonel, 
brigadier-general, and major-general in the Confederate 
service, surrendering with the Army of Tennessee in 1S65; 
was three times dangerously wounded ; after the close of 
the war returned to Tennessee and resumed the practice 
of law ; was a delegate to the Democratic national con- 
vention in 1868; served on the national Democratic exec- 
utive committee for Tennessee twelve years; was an elector 
for the State at large on the Tilden and Hendricks ticket 
in 1876 ; in 1SH2 was elected governor of Tennessee and 
reelected in 1884 without opposition ; in January, 1887, 
was elected to the I'uited States Senate as a Democrat, 
to succeed Washington C. Whitthorne, and took his seat 
March 4, 1887; was reelected in 1893. His term of service 
will expire March 3. 1891). 




JAMES H. BERRY 



JAMES H. BERRY 



James H. Berry, of Beutonville, was horn in Jackson 
County, Ala., May 15, 1S41 ; removed to Arkansas in 1848; 
received a limited education at a private school at Berry- 
ville, Ark. ; studied law. and was admitted to practice in 
1866 ; entered the 'Confederate army in 18(51 as second 
lieutenant. Sixteenth Arkansas Infantry ; lost a leg at the 
battle of Corinth. Miss.. October 4, 1862; was elected to 
the legislature of Arkansas in 1866 ; was reelected in 
1872 ; was elected speaker of the house at the extraor- 
dinary session of 1874 ; was president of the Democratic 
State convention in 1876; was elected judge of the circuit 
court in 1878 ; was elected governor in 1882 ; was elected 
to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed A. 
H. Garland, appointed Attorney-General, and took his seat 
March 25. 1885, and was reelected in 1SS«> and 1895. His 
term of service will expire March 3, 1901. 




JULIUS C. BURROWS 



JULIUS C. BURROWS 



Julius C. Burkows, of Kalamazoo, was born at North- 
east, Erie County, Pa., January 9, lSo7 ; received a common 
school and academic education ; by professior. a lawyer ; 
was an officer in the Union Army 1862-64 ; prosecuting 
attorney of Kalamazoo County 1865 67 ; appointed super- 
visor of internal revenue for the States of Michigan and 
Wisconsin in 1867, but declined the office ; elected a Rep- 
resentative to the Forty-Third, Forty-Sixth, and Forty- 
Seventh Congresses ; appointed solicitor of the United States 
Treasury Department by President Arthur in 1884, but de- 
clined the office ; elected a delegate at large from Michigan 
to the national Republican convention at Chicago in 1884 ; 
elected to the Forty-Ninth. Fiftieth, and Fifty-First Con- 
gresses; twice elected Speaker pro fcuiporr of the House of 
Representatives during the Fifty-First Congress, and was 
elected to the Fifty-Second and Fifty-Third Congresses and 
reelected to the Fifty-Fourth Congress as a Republican by 
over 13,000 plurality ; resigned his seat in the House Jan- 
uary 23. 1895, to assume the office of United States Sena- 
tor from Michigan, to which he had been elected by the 
legislature, to fill out the unexpired term of Francis B. 
Stockbridge, deceased, and took his seat in the Senate the 
same day. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899. 




MARION BUTLER 



MARION BUTLER 



Marion Butler, of p]lliot. Sampson Countj% was born on 
a farm in Honeycutts Township, Sampson County, N. C, 
May 20, 18(53; was prepared for college by his mother and 
at a neighboring academy, but ohiefly by his mother; 
graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1885; 
began the study of laAV, but was called home, being the 
eldest boy, by the sudden death of his father, to run the 
farm and to look after the education of his younger 
brothers and sisters, and taught at a neighboring academy 
for three years; in 1888 he joined the Farmers' Alliance 
and bought the Clinton Caucasian; was elected to the 
State senate in 1890; was the leader of the Alliance forces 
in that body; was chairman of the joint committee on rail- 
road commission, and succeeded in passing the present 
railroad-commission law of North Carolina and in securing 
a number of other needed reforms; was elected president 
of the State Farmers' Alliance in 1891 and reelected in 
1892; was elected vice-president of the National Farmers' 
Alliance and Industrial Union in 1898 and elected president 
of that organization in 1894; immediately after adjourn- 
ment of the Chicago convention in 1892 he publicly declared 
that he would not support Grover Cleveland, and at once 
severed his connection with the Democratic party and 
went to work to organize and build up the People's party; 
in the winter of 1898-94 he conceived the plan of campaign 
which resulted in such a triumphant success at the fall 



MARION BUTLER 

election of 1894; was chairman of the Populist State com- 
mittee during that campaign; is a trustee and a member 
of the executive board of the State University, his alma 
mater; his paper, the Caucasian, has been removed to 
Raleigh, N. C, and has probably the largest circulation 
and is one of the most influential papers in the State; 
was elected to the United States Senate as a Populist, to 
succeed Matt. W. Ransom, Democrat, in 1895. His term of 
service will expire March 3, 1901. He was elected chair- 
man of the national executive committee of the Populist 
party in 1896, and was an earnest and ardent supporter of 
William J. Bryan for President. 




DONELSON CAFFERY 



DONELSON CAFFERY 



DoNELSON Caffery, of Franklin, St. Mary Parish, was 
born in tlie parish of St. Mary, La., Septeml^er 10, 1S35 ; 
was educated at St. Mary's College, Maryland ; studied 
law in Louisiana and was admitted to the bar ; served in 
the Confederate army, first in the Thirteenth Louisiana 
Regiment and subsequently on the staff of Gen. W. W. 
Walker ; practiced law and engaged in sugar planting 
after the war; was a member of the Constitutional Con- 
vention of 1879 ; was elected to the State senate in 1892 ; 
was appointed United States Senator to succeed Randall 
Lee Gibson, deceased, and took his seat January 7, 1898. 
He was elected by the legislature in 1894 to fill out the 
term of Randall Lee Gibson, which expired March 4, 1895, 
and also to succeed himself for the long term, expiring 
March 4, 1901. 




FRANK J. CANNON 



FRANK J. CANNON 



Frank J. Cannon, of Ogden. was born at Salt Lake City, 
Utah, January 25, 1851) ; graduated from the University of 
Utah in 1878 ; is a printer and newspaper writer ; was 
defeated for delegate to Congress by Joseph L. Rawlins 
in 1892 ; was elected delegate to Congress in 1894 ; was 
elected to the United States Senate January 22, 1896. His 
term of service will expire March 8, 1899. 




THOMAS H. CARTER 



THOMAS HENRY CARTER 



Thomas Henry Carter, of Helena, was born in Scioto 
County. Ohio. October 30, 1854 ; received a common-school 
education in Illinois ; was engaged in farming, railroading, 
and school teaching for a number of years ; studied law 
and was admitted to the bar: in lSS-2 removed from Bur- 
lington, Iowa, to Helena, Mont. : was elected delegate 
from the Territory of Montana to the Fifty-First Congress 
as a Repulilican. and upon the admission of the State was 
elected its first Representative in Congress : was commis- 
sioner of the General Land Office from March, 1S91. to 
July, 185)2; in January. 1895, was elected to the United 
States Senate by the legislature of ^lontana for the term 
beginning March 4, 1895. and ending March o. 1901. In 
July. 1892. he was elected chairman of the Republican 
national committee. 




WILLIAM E. CHANDLER 



WILLIAM EATON CHANDLER 



William Eaton Chandler, of Concord, was boru in 
Concord, N. H., December 2S, ],S85; received a common- 
school education: studied law: graduated at Harvard Law 
School and was admitted to the l)ar ii: 1S55 ; in 1S51) was 
appointed reporter of the decisions of the supreme court ; 
was a meml)er of the New Hampshire house of represen- 
tatives in 1S()'2, ISfio. and 1.S64, serving as its speaker dining 
the last two yeai-s : on March '.). 1865. liecame solicitor and 
judge-advocate general of the Navy Department : was 
appointed First Assistant Secretary of the Treasury June 
17. 1865, and resigned that office November 30, 1867 : in 
1876 was a member of the New Hampshire constitutional 
convention: in 1881 was again a memlter of the New 
Hampshire house of representatives ; on ]\Iarch 23, 1881, 
was appointed by President (Tarfield solicitor-general, but 
was rejected by the Senate ; was appointed by President 
Arthur Secretary of the Navy April 12. 1S82. and served 
till March 7. 1SS5: was elected to the United States Senate 
June 14. 1887. as a Kepul)lican. to till the unexpired term 
of Austin F. Pike, whicli ended March 3. 1881) : was reelected 
June 18, 1881). and again January 16. 181)5. His term of 
.service will expire March 3. 1901. 




HORACE CHILTON 



HORACE CHILTON 



Horace Chilton, of Tyler, was boru in the county iu 
which he now lives (Smith County, Texas), December 29, 
1853 ; is an attorney-at-law ; was a delegate at large from 
Texas to the national Democratic convention at St. Louis 
in ISSy ; served one term as assistant attorney-general 
of Texas by appointment of Gov. 0. M. Roberts ; was ap- 
pointed LInited States Senator by Governor Hogg, to fill 
the vacancy created by the resignation of Hon. John H. 
Reagan, iu April, 1891, but failed of election when the 
legislature convened ; became a candidate again in L894, 
made a canvass of the State, and was elected to the United 
States Senate without practical opposition, as tlie successor 
of Hon. Richard Coke (who did not desire reelection), on 
January 23, 1895. His term of service will expire March 
3, 190L 




CLARENCE D. CLARK 



CLARENCE D. CLARK 



Clarence D. Clark, of Evauston, was born at Sandy 
Creek, Oswego Conuty, N. Y.. April 16. 1S51 ; was educated 
in the common schools and at the Iowa State I'niversity ; 
admitted to the bar in LS74 and taught school and prac- 
ticed law in Delaware County, Iowa, until ISSl ; in that 
year removed to Evauston, Wyo., where he has since re- 
sided ; was prosecuting attorney for Uinta County four 
years; was appointed associate justice of the Territory of 
Wyoming in 1890, but declined the office; upon the 
admission of Wyoming as a State was elected to the 
Fifty-First and Fifty-Second Congresses ; was defeated for 
reelection to the Fifty-Third Congress by a fusion of Dem- 
ocrats and Populists; was elected January 23, 1895, to the 
United States Senate for the term ending March 8, 1S99, 
to fill the vacancy caused by the failure of the legislature 
to elect in 1892-93. 




ALEXANDER S. CLAY 



ALEXANDER STEPHENS CLAY 



Alexander Stephens Clay, of Marietta, Cobb Countj'. 

Ga., was boru September 25, , on a farm in Cobb 

County; received his primary and preparatory eduoaticni 
in the country schools and the high school at Palmetto, 
Ga. ; graduated from Hiawassee College in 1S75: taught 
school for two years ; studied law under Judge David 
Irwin, of Marietta, and was admitted to the bar in Sep- 
tember, 1.S77, and has been engaged actively in the prac- 
tice of law since ; was elected a member of the city 
council in 18(S0 and reelected in LSHl ; in 1884-85 and 
1886-S7 represented Colili County in the general assembly 
of the State; in the latter term was elected speaker pro 
tempore; was reelected for 1889-90, and served as speaker 
for two years ; in 1892 was elected to the State senate, 
and served as president of that body for two years; in 
1894 was elected chairman of the State Democratic execu- 
tive committee, and conducted the State campaign between 
the Democrats and Populists that year ; was reelected to 
the same position in 189(5, and still occupies the place ; 
was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to 
succeed John B. Gordon, in October, 189(j, and took his 
seat March 4, 1897. His term of service will expire March 
3, 1903. 




FRANCI5 M. COCKRELL 



FRANCIS MARION COCKRELL 



Francis Marion Cockrell, of Warrensburg, was born in 
Johnson County, Mo., October 1, 1884 ; received his early 
education in the common schools of his county ; graduated 
from Chapel Hill College, Lafayette County, Mo., in July, 
1853 ; studied law and has pursued that profession, never 
having held any public office prior to his election to Con- 
gress; was elected to the Senate as a Democi-at, to succeed 
Carl Schurz, Independent Republican ; took his seat March 
4, 1875, and was reelected three times. His term of service 
will expire March 3, 1899. 




SHELBY M. CULLOM 



SHELBY M. CULLOM 



Shelby M. Cullom, of Springfield, was born in Wayne 
County, Ky., November 22. 1S21) : his father removed to 
Tazewell County. 111., the following year. He received an 
academic and university education ; went to Springfield in 
the fall of 1(S.>> to study law and has since resided there ; 
immediately upon receiving license to practice was elected 
city attorney ; continued to practice law until he took his 
seat in the House of Bepresentatives in 1S65 ; was a presi- 
dential elector in 1856 on the Fillmore ticket ; was elected 
a member of the house of representatives of the Hlinois 
legislature in 1856, 1860, 1872, and 1874, and was elected 
speaker in 1861 and in 1873 ; was elected a Representative 
from Illinois in the Thirty-Ninth, Fortieth, and Foi-ty-First 
Congresses, serving from December 4, 1865, to March 3, 
1871 ; was a delegate to the national Republican convention 
at Philadelphia in 1872, being chairman of the Illinois 
delegation, and placed General (Irant in nomination; was 
a delegate to the national Repulilican convention in 1884 
and chairman of the llliuois delegation ; was elected gov- 
ernor of Illinois in 1876 and succeeded himself in 1880, 
serving from January 8, 1877, until February 5, 1883, when 
he resigned, having Iieen elected to the United States 
Senate as a Repul)lican. to succeed David Davis, Inde- 
pendent Democrat ; took his seat December 4, 1883, and 
was reelected in 1888 and again in 18'.)4 ; was a member 
of the commission appointed to prepare a system of laws 
for the Hawaiian Islands. His term of service will expire 
March 3, 1901. 




JOHN W. DANIEL 



JOHN WARWICK DANIEL 



John Warwick Daniel, of Lynchbiirjj:, Campbell County, 
Ya.; born there September 5, 1842 ; attended private schools, 
Lj'nchburg College, Dr. Uessner Harrison's University School ; 
entered Confederate army as second lieutenant. "Stonewall 
Brigade." in May, 1861, and became major and chief of staff 
of Gen. Jubal A. Early, on which he served until crippled 
in the Wilderness. May 6, 1864; studied law at University 
of Virginia 1865-66, and practiced with his father, the late 
Judge William Daniel. Jr., until his death in 1873 ; is LL. D. 
of Washington and Lee University and of Michigan Uni- 
versity ; is author of "'Daniel on Attachments" and "Daniel 
on Negotiable Instruments"; member of Virginia house of 
delegates 186'J to 1872 ; member of State senate from 1875 
to 1881 ; Democratic elector at large 1876, and delegate at 
large to national Democratic conventions of 1880, 1888, 
lS'.t2, and 1896 ; Democratic nominee for governor in 1881, 
and defeated by William E. Cameron. Readjuster; elected 
to House of Representatives of Forty-Ninth Congress in 
1884 ; elected to United States Senate, as a Democrat, to 
succeed William Mahone, and took his seat March 4, 1887 ; 
unanimously reelected in Decembei", 1891, and unanimously 
reelected for the tliird time December, 1897. Present term 
expires March 3, 1899, and the term of reelection March 
3, 1905. 




CUSHMAN K. DAVIS 



CUSHMAN KELLOGG DAVIS 



CuSHMAN Kellogg Davis, of St. Paul, was born in Hen- 
derson, Jefferson County, N. Y.. June 16, LS3.S; received a 
common-school and collegiate education, graduating from 
the University of Michigan in June. 1S57; is a lawyer by 
profession ; was first lieutenant in tlie Twenty-Eighth Wis- 
consin Infantry 1S62-64 : was a member of the Minnesota 
legislature in 1S67 ; was L' nited States District Attorney for 
Minnesota 1868-73 ; was governor of Minnesota 1874-75 ; 
was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, 
to succeed S. J. R. McMillan, Republican, and took his seat 
March 4, 18S7 ; was reelected in 1893 ; was a member of 
the commission which met at Paris, September, 1898, to 
arrange terms of peace between the United States and 
Spain. His term of service will expire March 3. 1899. 




WILLIAM J. DEBOE 



WILLIAM J. DEBOE 



William J. Deboe. of Marion, was born in Crittenden 
County, Ky.. in LS49 ; his father waw a Baptist minister 
and came to Kentucky from Virginia ; his great-grandfather 
served seven years in the Revolutionary War; received his 
education in the public and academic schools of the State, 
and Ewing College, Illinois ; studied law in early life, but 
afterwards studied medicine and graduated from the Med- 
ical University of Louisville, and practiced a few years until 
his health failed ; he then renewed the study of the law 
and was admitted to the bar, and is a member of the law 
firm of Blue tV Deboe : has always been a Republican, and 
was superintendent of schools of Crittenden County ; in 
1888 was a delegate to the Chicago convention which 
nominated General Harrison ; has been a member of the 
Republican State central committee seven years ; made the 
race for Congress in 1S9'2. and in 1H[)'S was elected to 
the State senate ; in 1S96 was a delegate from the State 
at large to the St. Louis convention, and chairman of the 
delegation : when the Republicans carried the legislature 
he entered the race for United States Senator, but with- 
drew in favor of W. G. Hunter, who failed to be elected 
at that session ; in 1S1)6 he again entered the race for 
Senator, and again withdrew in the interest of Hunter, 
who failed of an election, and who himself withdrew, when 
Deboe was nominated and elected after one of the most 
sensational and memorable sessions of the legislature of 
the State. His term of service will expire March 3, 11)03. 




STEPHEN B. ELKINS 



STEPHEN BENTON ELKINS 



Stephen Benton Elkins, of Elkins. was boni in Perry 
County, Ohio, September '2(). 1.S41 ; received his early edu- 
cation in the public schools of Missouri, and graduated 
from the university of that State, at Columbia, in the 
class of LSOU ; was admitted to the bar in 18(5;!, and in the 
same year emigrated to New Mexico, where he acquired a 
knowledge of the Spanish language and began the practice 
of law ; was a memlier of the Territorial legislative assem- 
l)ly of New Mexico in bSOi and LS()5 ; held the othces of 
Territorial district attorney, attorney-general, and United 
States district attorney : was elected to the Forty-Third 
Congress as a Repuldican, and while al)road was renomi- 
nated and elected to the Forty-Fourth Congress ; during 
his first term in I'ongress was made a meml)er of the 
Republican national committee, on which lie served for 
three presidential campaigns ; after leaving Congress he 
I'emoved to West N'irginia and devoted himself to business 
affairs; was appointed Secretary of War December 17, 1.S91. 
and served until the close of President Harrison's admin- 
istration; in February. 1S1)4, was elected to the United 
States Senate as a Republican to succeed Hon. Johnson N. 
Camden. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901. 




CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS 



CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS 



Charles Warp.ex Fairbanks, of Indianapolis, was born 
on a farm near Unionville Center. Union County, Ohio. May 
11, 1S52 ; was educated in the common schools of the 
neighborhood and at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Dela- 
ware, Ohio, graduating from that institution in 1872 in the 
classical course ; was admitted to the bar by the supreme 
court of Ohio in 1S74; removed to Indianapolis in the same 
year, where he has since practiced his profession; never 
held public office prior to his election to the Senate ; was 
elected a trustee of the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1S85 ; 
was chairman of the Indiana Republican State conventions 
in 18y"2 and 1S9S ; was unanimously chosen as the nominee 
of the Republican caucus for United States Senator in the 
Indiana legislature in January, 1893. and subsequently re- 
ceived his entire party vote in the legislature, but was 
defeated by David Turpie. Democrat ; was a delegate at 
large to the Republican national convention at St. Louis 
in 1896, and was temporary chairman of the convention ; 
was appointed a member of the United States and British 
Joint High Commission which met in Quebec in 1898, for 
the adjustment of Canadian questions, and was chairman 
of the L'nited States high commissioners ; was elected to 
the United States Senate as a Republican. January 20. 
1897. by a majority of 21 on joint ballot, over Daniel W. 
Voorhees and Leroy Templeton. and took his seat March 
4, 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903. 




CHARLES J. FAULKNER 



CHARLES JAMES FAULKNER 



Charles James Faulkner, of Martinsburg, was born in 
Martiusburg, Berkeley County, W. Va.. September 21, 1847 ; 
accompanied his father, who was minister to France in 
1859 ; attended noted schools in Paris and Switzerland ; re- 
turned to the United States in August. 1861, and after 
the arrest of hi.' father he immediately went South ; in 
1862, at the age of fifteen, he entered the Virginia Military 
Institute at Lexington ; served with the cadets in the battle 
of New Market; served as aid to (len. J. C. Breckinridge, 
and afterwards to Gen. Henry A. Wise, surrendering with 
Gen. Wise at Appomattox : on his return to Boydville, 
his home was in Martinsbu)-g ; he studied under the direc- 
tion of his father until October. 1866, when he entered 
the University of Virginia, graduating in June. 1868; was 
admitted to the bar in September. 1S6.S; was made grand 
master of the Masonic (irand Lodge in 1879 ; in October. 
1880, was elected judge of the thirteenth judicial circuit, 
composed of the counties of Jefferson, Morgan, and Berke- 
ley ; was elected to the Lhiited States Senate as a Demo- 
crat, to succeed Johnson N. Camden, and took his seat 
March 4, 1887 ; was reelected in 1893 ; was permanent 
chairman of the Democratic State convention of West Vir- 
ginia in 1888. and was both temporary and permanent 
chaii'man of the Democratic State convention of 1892; was 
chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign com- 
mittee in 1894 and 1896 ; appointed a member of the joint 
commission of the two Houses to investigate the question 
of the price of railway mail transportation and postal-car 
service, and all sources of revenue and expenditures of 
the Post-Oftice Department, under act approved June 13, 
1898; appointed a member of the International Joint High 
Commission of the United States and Great Britain for 
the adjustment of differences in respect to the Dominion 
of Canada, on Septem))er 19. 1898. His term of service 
will expire March 3. 1899. 




JOSEPH B. FORAKER 



JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER 



Joseph Benson Foraker, of Cinoinnati. was born July 
5, 184G, on a farm near Rainsboro. Highland County, 
Ohio ; enlisted July 14, 1862, as a private in Company A, 
Eighty-Ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with 
which organization he served until the close of the war, 
at which time he held the rank of tirst lieutenant and 
brevet captain ; was graduated from Cornell University, 
Ithaca. N. Y., July 1, 1.869 ; was admitted to the bar and 
entered upon the practice of the law at Cincinnati, Ohio, 
October 14, 1869 ; was elected judge of the superior court 
of Cincinnati in April, 1879 ; resigned on account of ill- 
health May 1. 1882; was the Republican candidate for 
governor of Ohio in 1883, but was defeated ; was elected 
to that ofBce in 1885. and reelected in 1887 ; was again 
nominated for governor and defeated in 1889 ; v^as elected 
United States Senator January 15, 1896, to succeed Calvin 
S. Brice. and took his seat March 4, 1897. His term will 
expire March 3, 1908. 




WILLIAM P. FRYE 



WILLIAM P. FRYE 



William P. Frye, of Lewistou, was ])orn at Lewiston, 
Me., September 2, 1S31 ; graduated at Bowdoin College, 
Maine, 1850 ; studied and practiced law ; was a member of 
the State legislature in 1S61. 1S62, and ly(j7; was maj^or 
of the city of Lewiston in 1866 and 1867; was attorney- 
general of the State of Maine in 1867, 1868, and 1869; 
was elected a member of the national Republican execu- 
tive committee in 1872 and reelected in 1876 and 1880; 
was elected a trustee of Bowdoin College in June, 1880; 
received the degree of LL. D. from Bates College in July, 
1881, and the same degree from Bowdoin College in 1889; 
was a presidential elector in 1864 ; was a delegate to the 
national Republican conventions in 1872, 1876, and 1S80; 
was elected chairman of the Republican State committee 
of Maine in place of Hon. James G. Blaine, resigned in 
November, 1881 ; was elected a Representative in the Forty- 
Second, Forty-Third, Forty-Fourth, Forty-Fifth, Forty- 
Sixth, and Forty-Seventh Congresses; was elected to the 
United States Senate as a Republican to fill the vacancy 
occasioned by the resignation of .James di. Blaine, ap- 
pointed Secretary of State ; took his seat March 18, 1881 ; 
was reelected in 18S8. in 18S8. and again in 1895, receiv- 
ing every vote, with one exception, in both branches of 
the legislature, at the latter election ; was elected presi- 
dent pro tempore of the Senate Feliruary 7, 1896 ; was a 
member of the commission which met in Paris. Septem- 
ber, 1898. to adjust terms of peace between the Lhiited 
States and Spain. His term of service will expire March 
3, 1901. 




JACOB H. GALLINGER 



JACOB H. GaLLINGER 



Jacob H. Gallinger, of Concord, is of Dutch ancestry, 
his paternal grandfather having emigrated from Holhmd 
previous to the Revohitionary War. first settling in New 
York and afterwards going to Canada ; w as born on a farm 
in Cornwall, Ontario. March 28, 1837 ; received a common- 
school and academic education; was a printer in early 
life ; studied medicine and was graduated in 1858. and fol- 
lowed the profession of medicine and surgery in the city 
of his present residence from April. 1S()2. until he entered 
public life, having a practice which extended beyond the 
limits of his State ; was connected with various medical 
societies and made frequent contributions to medical liter- 
ature ; was a member of the house of representatives of 
New Hampshire in 1872-73 and in 1891 ; was a member of 
the constitutional convention in 1876 ; was a member of the 
State senate in 187S, 1871), and 1880. being president of 
that body the last two years ; was surgeon-general of New 
Hampshire with the rank of brigadier-general in 1879-80; 
received the honorary degree of A. M. from Dartmouth 
College; was chairman of the Republican State committee 
from 1882 to 1890. when he resigned the place, but was 
again elected to the position in 1898 ; was chairman of the 
delegation from his State to the Republican national 
convention of 1888, and made a speech seconding the 
nomination of Benjamin Harrison ; was elected to the 
Forty-Ninth and Fiftieth Congresses as a Republican, and 
declined renomination to the Fifty-First Congress ; was 
elected United States Senator to succeed Henry W. Blair, 
and took his seat March 4, 1891, and was reelected in 
1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 1903. 




JOHN H. GEAR 



JOHN HENRY GEAR 



John Henry Gear, of Burlington, was born in Itliaca, 
N. Y., April 7, 1825 ; received a common-school education ; 
removed to Galena, 111., in 1S36, to Fort Suelling. Iowa 
Territor}', in 1S8.S, and to Burlington in 1S43, where he 
engaged in merchandising ; was elected mayor of the city 
of Burlington in 1S63; was a member of the Iowa house 
of representatives of the fourteenth, fifteenth, and six- 
teenth general assemblies of the State, serving as speaker 
for the last two terms ; was elected governor of Iowa in 
1878-79 and again in 1880-81 ; was elected to the Fiftieth 
and Fifty-First Congresses ; was beaten for the Fifty- 
Second ; was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under 
President Harrison, and was elected to the Fifty-Third 
Congress as a Republican ; was elected January 23, 1894, a 
Senator in Congress from the State of Iowa for six years, 
beginning March 4, 189">. His term of service will expire 
March 3, 1901. 




JAMES Z. GEORGE 



JAMES Z. GEORGE 



James Z. George, of Carrollton, was born in Monroe 
County, Ga., October 20, 1826 ; his father having died in his 
infancy, he removed, when eight years of age, with his 
mother, to Noxubee County, Miss., where he resided two 
years ; he then removed to Carroll County, where he was ed- 
ucated in the common schools then existing ; he volunteered 
as a private in the P^irst Regiment of Mississippi Volunteers 
in the Mexican War, commanded by Col. Jefferson Davis, 
and was at the battle of Monterey ; on his return he 
studied law. and was admitted to the bar in Carroll County ; 
he was elected reporter of the high court of errors and 
appeals in 1S54. reelected in 1S()0. and prepared and pub- 
lished ten volumes of the reports of the decisions of that 
court, and afterwards prepared and published a digest of 
all the decisions of the supreme court and high court of 
errors and appeals of that State from the admission of the 
State into the Union to and including the year 1870 ; he 
was a member of the conventicm in Mississippi in 1S()1 
which passed the ordinance of secession, and he voted for 
and signed that instrument ; he was a captain in the 
Twentieth Regiment of Mississippi Volunteers in the Con- 
federate States army, afterwards a brigadier-general of 
State troops, and later colonel of the Fifth Regiment of 
Mississippi Cavalry in the Confederate States army ; was 
chairman of the Democratic State executive committee of 
Mississippi in 1875-76; in 1879 was appointed one of the 
judges of the supreme court of Mississippi and elected 
chief justice; resigned his seat on the supreme bench in 
February. 1881. to take his seat in the Senate on the 4th 
of March of that year, and was reelected in 1886 and 
again in January, 1892 ; was a member of the constitu- 
tional convention of the State of Mississippi which was 
held in 1890 and framed the present constitution of the 
State. On August 14, 1897, the long and honorable career 
of Mr. George was closed by death. 




ARTHUR P. GORMAN 



ARTHUR P. GORMAN 



Arthur P. Gorman, of Laurel, wu.s born in Howard 
County, Md., March 11. 1839; attended the public schools 
in his native county for a l)rief period : in 1S52 was ap- 
pointed page in the Senate of the United States, and con- 
tinued in the service of the Senate until 1866, at which 
time he was postmaster: on the 1st of September. 1866. 
he was removed from his position and immediately ap- 
pointed collector of internal revenue for the hftli district 
of Maryland, which otttce he held until the incoming of 
the Grant administration in 1869; in June, 186i), he was 
a[)pointed a director in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 
Company, and in November was elected a memlier of the 
house of delegates of the Maryland legislature as a Demo- 
crat; he was reelected in 1871. then elected speaker of the 
house of delegates at the ensuing session ; in June, 1872, he 
was elected president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 
Company ; in 1875 he was elected to represent Howard 
County in the Maryland State senate, and was reelected in 
November, 1879, for a term of four years ; was elected in 
January, 1880, to the United States Senate as a Democrat, 
to succeed William Pinkney Whyte; took his seat March 
4, 1881, and was reelected in 1886 and in 189*2. His term 
of service will expire March 3, 1899. 




GEORGE GRAY 



GEORGE GRAY 



George Gray, of Wilmington, was born at New Castle, 
Del., May 4, l!S40 ; he graduated at Princeton College when 
nineteen years old, receiving the degree of A. B., and in 1.S62 
the degree of A. M. ; in ISyy the degree of LL. D. was con- 
ferred upon him by his alma mater ; after studying law 
with his father. Andrew C. Gray, he spent a year in the 
Harvard Law School and was admitted to practice in 
1H63 ; was appointed attorney-general of the State of Del- 
aware in liSTl) by Governor Hall and was reappointed in 
1884 by Governor Stockley ; was a delegate to the national 
Democratic conventions at St. Louis in 1S76, at Cincinnati 
in ISiSO. and at Chicago in 1S84 : was elected to the United 
States Senate as a Democrat, to fill the vacancy caused by 
the appointment of Thomas F. Bayard as Secretary of 
State ; was reelected in 1887 and in 1893 ; was a memlier 
of the commission which met at Quebec. August. 18ys, to 
settle differences between the United States and Canada, 
and later of the commission which met at Paris in Sep- 
tember, isy8, to arrange terms of peace between the United 
States and Spain. His term of service will expire March 
3, 1899. 




EUGENE HALE 



EUGENE HALE 



Eugene Hale, of Ellswortli, was Ijorn at Turner. Oxford 
County, Me., June 9. 18-1(5 ; received an academic education ; 
studied law. was admitted to the bar in IS")?, and com- 
menced practice at the age of twenty ; was for nine succe.s.sive 
years county attorney for Hancock (Jounty ; was a mem- 
ber of the legislature of Maine in 1S()7. LS6S. and 1H.S0 ; 
was elected to the Forty-First. Forty-Second, and Forty- 
Third Congresses : was appointetl l'ostmaster-(ieneral by 
President Crant in 1S74. l)ut declined : was reelected to 
the Forty-Fourth and Forty-Fifth Congresses : was tendered 
a Cabinet appointment, as Secretary of the Navy, by Pi-esi- 
dent Hayes, and declined ; was chairman of the Kepuhlican 
congressional committee for the Forty-Fifth Congress ; 
received the degree of LL. D. from Bates College, from 
Colby University, and from Bowdoin College ; was a delegate 
to the C'incinnati convention in lS7(i and the Chicago 
conventions in 1S()S and ISSO ; was elected to the United 
States Senate as a Republican, to succeed Hannibal Hamlin. 
Republican (who declined a reelection), and took his seat 
March 4, IHSI ; was reelected in 1HS7 and in l.S!.)3. His 
term of service will expire March 8. LSDi). 




MARCUS A. HANNA 



MARCUS ALONZO HANNA 



Marcus Alonzo Hanna. of Cleveland, was born in New 
Lisbon (now Lisbon). Columbiana County, Ohio, September 
24, 1837; removed with his father's family to Cleveland in 
1852 ; was educated in the common schools of that city 
and the Western Reserve College, Hudson. Ohio ; was 
engaged as an employee in the grocery house of Hanna, 
Garretson & Co.. his father being senior member of the 
firm ; his father died in 1S62 and he represented that 
interest in the firm until 1867, when the business was 
closed up ; then became a member of the tirm of Rhodes 
& Co., engaged in the iron and coal business ; at the expi- 
ration of ten years the title of this firm was changed to 
M. A. Hanna & Co., which still exists ; has been identified 
with lake carrying business, being intei'ested in vessels on 
the lakes, and in the construction of such vessels ; is pres- 
ident of the Union National Bank of Cleveland ; president 
of the Cleveland City Railway Company ; president of the 
Chapin Mining Company. Lake Sujierior ; was director of 
the Union Pacific Railway Company in liS8o, by appoint- 
ment of President Cleveland : was a delegate to the 
national Republican conventions in 1884, 1888. and 1896 ; 
was elected chairman of the national Republican committee 
in 1896, and still holds that position ; was appointed to the 
United States Senate as a Republican, by Governor Bush- 
nell, March 5, 1897, to fill the vacancy caused by the 
retirement of Hon. John Sherman, who resigned to accept 
the position of Secretary of State in President McKinley's 
Cabinet ; took his seat March 5, 1897 ; in January, 1898, he 
was elected for the short term ending March 4, 1899. and 
also for the succeeding full term. His term of service 
will end March 4, 1905. 




HENRY C. HANSBROUGH 



HENRY C. HANSBROUGH 



Henry C. Hansbrough. of Devils Lake, was born at 
Prairie du Rocher. Randolph County, 111., January 30, 184S; 
received a common-.sfhool education ; removed with his 
parents to California in 1.SG7 ; learned the trade of printer 
in that State ; published a daily paper at San Jose, Cal.. 
1869-70 ; was connected with the San Francisco Chronicle 
until 1879 ; published a paper at Baraboo. Wis., for two 
years, and removed to the then Territory of Dakota in 
1882, engaging in journalism ; became prominent as an 
advocate of the Repul)lican policy of division and admis- 
sion ; was twice elected mayor of his city ; was a delegate 
to the Chicago convention in 1888. and was there chosen 
national committeeman for North Dakota ; received the 
Republican nomination for Congress at the first State con- 
vention, and was elected to the Fifty-First (Congress. 
receiving 26,077 votes, against 12.006 for Daniel W. Mar- 
rata. Democrat; was elected to the United States Senate as 
a Republican January 23, 1891. to succeed (Till)ert A. Pierce. 
Republican. He took his seat March 4. 1891. was reelected 
in 1897, and his term of service will expire March 3, 1903. 




ISHAM G. HARRIS 



ISHAM G. HARRIS 



IsHAM G. Harris, of Memphis, was born in Franklin 
County, Tenn. ; was educated at tlie academy at Win- 
chester ; studied law. was admitted to the bar. and com- 
menced to practice at Pans. Henry County, Tenn., in 
1841 ; was elected to the State legislature as a Democrat 
from the counties of Henry. Weakley, and Obion in 1847 ; 
was a candidate for presidential elector in the ninth con- 
gressional district of Tennessee on the Democratic ticket 
in 1848 ; was elected to Congress as a Democrat from the 
ninth congressional district in 1849, reelected in 1851, 
and nominated as the candidate of the Democratic party 
in 1S58. but declined the nomination ; removed to Mem- 
phis and there resumed the practice of his profession ; was 
a presidential elector for the State at large in 1856 ; was 
elected governor of Tennessee as a Democi-at in 1857 and 
reelected in lS5i) and again in 1861 ; was a volunteer aid 
upon the staff of the commanding general of the Confed- 
erate army of Tennessee for the last three years of the 
war; returned to the practice of law at Memphis in 1867, 
and was engaged in it when elected to the United States 
Senate as a Democrat (defeating Judge L. L. Hawkins, 
Republican), to succeed Henry Cooper. Democrat; took his 
seat March 5, 1877. and was reelected in 1883, in 1889, 
and in 1895. On the 18th of July. 1897, Mr. Harris died, 
after a long life of statesmanship and honor. His position 
in the Senate was filled by the appointment of Thomas 
B. Turley. 




WILLIAM A. HARRIS 



WILLIAM A. HARRIS 



William A. Harris, of Linwood, Leavenworth CouDty, 
was born in Loudoun County, Va., October 29, 1S4L 
his home being in Luray, Ya.. where he attended school ; 
graduated at Columbian College. Washington, D. C, in 
1859, and at the Virginia Military Institute in 1S61 ; served 
three years in the Confederate army as assistant adjutant- 
general of Wilcox's brigade and ordnance officer of D. H. 
Hill's and Rodes's division. Army of Northern Virginia; 
removed to Kansas in 1S65 and was employed as civil 
engineer in the construction of the Union Pacific Rail- 
road, Kansas division, for three years • in 1S68 accepted 
the agency for the sale of the Delaware Reservation and 
other lands, in connection with farming and stock raising ; 
since 1876 has l^een a farmer and breeder of pure-bred 
shorthorn cattle ; was elected to the Fifty-Third Congress, 
at large, as a Populist, and indorsed by the Democrats ; 
was renominated for the Fifty-Fourth Congress, but was 
defeated at the election ; was elected to the United States 
Senate as a Populist, and took his seat March 4, 1897, His 
term of service will expire March 3, 1903. 

9 




JOSEPH R. HAWLEY 



JOSEPH ROSWELL HAWLEY 



Joseph Eoswell Hawley. of Hartford, was born at 
Stewartsville, Richmond County, N. C, October 31, 1826; 
graduated at Hamilton College. New York, in 1847 ; was 
admitted to the bar in 1850 at Hartford, Conn., where he 
has since resided ; practiced law six and a half years ; be- 
came editor of the Hartford Evening Press in February, 
1857, which, in 1867, was consolidated with the Hartford 
Courant, of which he became editor; enlisted in the Union 
army as a lieutenant April 15, 1861 ; became brigadier 
and brevet major-general; mustered out January 15, 1806; 
was elected governor of Connecticut in April. 1866; was a 
delegate to the Free Soil national convention of 1852, 
presidential elector in 1868, president of the Republican 
national convention of 1868, and delegate to the Republican 
national conventions of 1872. 1876. and 1880 ; was presi- 
dent of the United States Centennial Commission from its 
organization in March, 1873. to the completion of the 
work of the Centennial Exposition : is a trustee of Ham- 
ilton College ; received the degree of Doctor of Laws from 
Hamilton College, Yale University, and Trinity College ; 
was elected in November. 1872, a Representative in the 
Forty-Second Congress to fill a vacancy caused by the 
death of J. L. Strong ; was reelected to the Forty-Third 
and Forty-Sixth Congresses ; was elected to the United 
States Senate as a Republican, to succeed William W. 
Eaton, Democrat; took his seat March 4. 1881. and was 
reelected in 1887 and again in 1893. His term of service 
will expire March 3. 1899. 




HENRY HEITFELD 



HENRY HEITFELD 



Henry Heitfeld. of Lewiston, was born in St. Louie;, 
Mo.. January 12, 1S59; received his early education in the 
schools of that city ; removed to Seneca, Kan., at the age 
of eleven years, where he continued to reside till the year 
1882, in which year he emigrated to the State of Wash- 
ington ; located in Idaho in 1883. where he has been en- 
gaged in farming and stock raising since ; was elected 
State senator in 1894 and reelected in 1896 ; was elected 
United States Senator as a Populist, January 28, 1897 ; 
took his seat March 4, 1897. His term of service will 
expire March 3, 19U3. 




GEORGE F. HOAR 



GEORGE F. HOAR 



George F. Hoar, of Worcester, was born at Concord, 
Mass.. August 29, 1826 ; studied in early youth at Con- 
cord Academy; graduated at Harvard College in 1846; 
studied law and graduated at the Dane Law School. Har- 
vard University ; settled at Worcester, where he practiced ; 
was city solicitor in 1860 ; was president of the trustees 
of the city library ; was a memlier of the State house of 
representatives in 1852, and of the State senate in 1857 ; 
was elected Representative to the Forty-First, Forty-Secoiid, 
Forty-Third, and Forty-Fourth Congresses ; declined a re- 
nomination for Representative in the Forty-Fifth Congress ; 
was an overseer of Harvard College, 1874-80 ; declined 
reelection, but was reelected in lsi)6 ; was chosen president 
of the Association of the Alumni of Harvard, but declined ; 
presided over the Massachusetts State Republican conven- 
tions of 1871, 1877. 1882. and 1885; was a delegate to the 
Republican national conventions of 1876 at Cincinnati, and 
of 1880, 1884. and 1888. at Chicago, presiding over the 
convention of ISSO; was chairman of the Massachusetts 
delegation in 1880, 1884, and 1S,S8; was one of the mana- 
gers on the part of the House of Representatives of the 
Belknap impeachment trial in 1S76: was a member of 
the Electoral Commission in 1876 ; was regent of the Smith- 
sonian Institution in 1880 ; has been president and is now 
vice-president of the American Antiquarian Society, presi- 
dent of the American Historical Association, trustee of the 
Peabody Museum of Archeeology, trustee of Leicester 



GEORGE F. HOAR 

Academy, is a member of the Massachusetts Historical So- 
ciety, of the American Historical Society, the Historic- 
Genealogical Society, the Virginia Historical Society, and 
corresponding member of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 
and Sciences ; is a trustee of the Peabody fund ; has 
received the degree of Doctor of Laws from William and 
Mary, Amherst, Yale, and Harvard Colleges ; was elected to 
the United States Senate as a Eepublican. to succeed 
George S. Boutwell ; took his seat March 5, 1877, and was 
reelected in 1883, 1889, and 1895. His term of service will 
expire March 3, 1901. 




JAMES K. JONES 



JAMES K. JONES 



James K. Jones, of Wasliingtou, Hempstead County, was 
bojn in Marshall County, Miss., September 29, 1839 ; received 
a classical education ; was a private soldier during the 
"late unpleasantness" on the losing side; lived on his 
plantation after the close of the war until 1873, when he 
commenced the practice of law ; was elected to the State 
senate of Arkansas in 1873 ; was a member of the State 
senate when the constitutional convention of 1874 was 
called ; was reelected under the new government, and in 
1877 was elected president of the senate ; was elected to 
the Forty-Seventh Congress ; was reelected to the Forty- 
Eighth and Forty-Ninth Congresses ; was elected to the 
United States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed James D. 
Walker. Democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1885 ; was 
reelected in 1890 and 1897. His term of service will ex- 
pire March 3, 1903. 




JOHN P. JONES 



JOHN P. JONES 



John P. Jones, of Gold Hill, was born in Herefordshire, 
England, in 1830, and came with his parents to this country 
when he was less than a year old, settling in the northern 
part of Ohio, where he attended public school in Cleveland 
for a few years ; in the early part of the California ex- 
citement he went to that State and engaged in mining in 
one of the inland counties ; was sul^sequently a meml)er 
of the State senate ; went to Nevada in 1867, and since 
then has been entirely engaged in the development of the 
mineral I'esources of that State ; was elected to the United 
States Senate as a Republican, to succeed J. W. Nye, Ee- 
publican ; took his seat March 4. 1873. and was reelected 
in lS7y. 1885, 1S1>(». and 1897. His term of service will 
expire March 3, 1903. 




RICHARD R. KENNEY 



RICHARD ROLLAND KENNEY 



Richard Eoli.and Kenney, of Dover, was born in Sussex 
County, Del., September 9, 1856 ; gi-aduated from Laurel 
Academy, Delaware. June. 1874; attended Hobart College, 
Geneva, N. Y.; read law under the tuition of the late 
Senator Willard Saulsbury, of Dover; was admitted to the 
bar October 19, 1881. and has practiced his profession since ; 
was elected State librarian in January, 1879, and held that 
office for two terms ; w'as appointed adjutant-general of 
the State by Governor B. T. Diggs, January, 1887. and 
retired from that office at the end of his term, January, 
1891 ; w'as delegate to the national Democratic convention 
at Chicago in 1892 ; was made a member of the national 
Democratic committee in 1896, which position he still 
holds ; was elected to the United States Senate as a Demo- 
crat January 19, 1897, to hll the vacancy caused by the 
legislature of 1895 failing to elect a Senator to succeed 
the Hon. Anthony Higgins, whose term expired March 4, 
1895. He took his seat February 5, 1897. His term of 
service will expire March 8, 1901. 




JAMES H. KYLE 



JAMES HENDERSON KYLE 



James Henderson Kyle, of Aberdeen, was born near 
Xenia, Ohio. February 24. LS.j-t ; entered the University of 
Illinois in 1871. taking a course in civil engineering; entered 
Oberlin College in 1S73 and was graduated from classical 
course in 1878 ; prepared for admission to the bar, but 
afterwards entered Western Theological Seminary. Alle- 
gheny, Pa., graduating in 1882 ; during these years was 
teacher of mathematics and engineering, and subsequently 
engaged for sevei-al years in educational and ministerial 
work in Utah and South Dakota. At the time he entered 
political life was financial secretary of Yankton College, 
Yankton, S. Dak.; was elected to the State senate as an 
Independent in 1890; was elected to the United States 
Senate to succeed Gideon C. Moody ; took his seat March 
4, 1891 ; was reelected in 1897 as an Independent. His 
term of service will expire March 3, 1908. 




WILLIAM LINDSAY 



WILLIAM LINDSAY 



William Lindsay, of Frankfort. Avas born in Rockbridge 
County, Va., September 4. iS^o ; settled in Clinton, Hick- 
man County, Ky., in November. 1854 ; commenced the 
practice of law in 1S5S ; served in the Confederate army 
continuously from July. 1S61, till May. lSfi5 ; was paroled 
as prisoner of war at Columbus. Miss.. May 16, 1865 ; re- 
sumed the practice of law in Hickman County, Ky., in the 
autumn of 1865 ; was elected State senator for the Hick- 
man district in August. 1867; was elected judge of the 
Kentucky court of appeals in August, 1870. and served till 
September, 1878 ; from September, 1876, until September, 
1878, was chief justice of the court; has practiced law in 
Frankfort. Ky.. since September. 1878 : was elected State 
senator for the Frankfort district in August. 1889 ; was 
appointed and served as a member of the World's Colum- 
bian Commission, for the country at large, from the organ- 
ization of the commission until February 20. 1893 ; was 
appointed and confirmed as meml)er of the Interstate 
Commerce Commission in January. 1892. but declined to 
accept the appointment ; was elected United States Sena- 
tor on February 14, 1898. to hll the vacancy caused by the 
resignation of John G. Carlisle, and was reelected in Jan- 
uary, 1894. for the full term commencing March 4. 1895. 
His term of service will expire March 3. 1901. 




HENRY C. LODGE 



HENRY CABOT LODGE 



Henry Cabot Lodge, of Nahaiit, was born in Boston. 
Mass., Maj' 12, 1850 ; received a private-school and col- 
legiate education ; was graduated from Harvard College 
in 1871 ; studied law at Harvard Law School and graduated 
in 1875, receiving the degree of LL. B.; was admitted to 
the Suffolk bar in 1876 ; profession, that of literature ; 
served two terms as member of the house of repi'esenta- 
tives of the Massachusetts legislatui-e ; was elected to the 
Fiftieth, Fifty-First. Fifty-Second, and Fifty-Third Con- 
gresses ; was elected to the Senate January 17. 1893, to 
succeed Henry L. Dawes ; resigned his seat in the House 
and took his seat in the Senate March 4, 1893. His term 
of service will expire March 3, 1899. 




GEORGE W. McBRIDE 



GEORGE W. McBRIDE 



George W. McBride. of St. Helens, was born in Yam- 
hill County, Oreg., March 13, 1854; received his primary 
education in the public schools and in the Preparatory 
Depai'tment of Willamette University ; was a student at 
Christian College. Monmouth, Oreg., for two yeai'S ; studied 
law and was admitted to the bar, but has not l)een 
engaged in the active practice of his profession ; was en- 
gaged in mercantile business for ten years ; was elected a 
meml^er of the house of representatives of the legislative 
assembly of Oregon in June, 1S82 ; was elected speaker of 
the house in September, 1882; was elected secretary of 
state in 1886 ; was reelected in 1890 and served eight 
years, his second term ending January 14. 1895 ; was 
elected United States Senator, as a liepulilican, February 
23, 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901. 




SAMUEL D. McENERY 



SAMUEL DOUGLAS McENERY 



Samuel Douglas McEnery. of New Orleans, was born 
at Monroe. La.. May 28, 1837; was educated at Spring Hill 
College, near Mobile. Ala., the United States Naval Academy, 
and the Ihiiversity of \'irginia : graduated from State and 
National Law School. Poughkeep.sie, N. Y. ; served in the 
Confederate army, in the war between the States, as lieu- 
tenant, in Virginia, under Magruder. and in the trans- 
Mississippi department ; is a lawyer by profession ; was 
nominated by the Democratic party and elected lieuten- 
ant-governor, with L. A. Wiltz as governor, in 1879 ; on 
the death of Governor Wiltz. October. 1881. succeeded him 
in the executive ofhce : was nominated by the Democratic 
party for governor and elected in 1884; was a candidate 
for renomination and was defeated by Gen. Francis T. 
Nicholls for the nomination ; General Nicholls was elected 
in 1888. and appointed his o^jponent, S. D. McEnery, to be 
associate justice of the supreme court in 1888 for the 
term of twelve years ; was nominated by the Democratic 
party in 1892 for governor and defeated by the Anti-Lot- 
tery party; was nominated by Democratic caucus for Sen- 
ator at the session of the legislature in 1896. and elected 
to the Senate, to succeed the Hon. N. C. Blanchard. May 
28, 1896 : Walter Denegre, of New Orleans, was his oppo- 
nent, supported by Eepuldicans. Populi.sts. and a faction 
from the Democratic party known as the Citizens' League. 
Th6 vote was as follows: S. D. McEnery — Senate, 20; 
House, 48; total, 68, against Senate, 16; House. 50; total. 
66. for Walter Denegre. This was the vote as originally 
called, but before it was announced one vote changed from 
McEnery to Denegre. and two votes from Denegre to Mc- 
Enery. making the vote stand. McEnery, 69 ; Denegre, 65 ; 
took his seat March 4, 1897. His term of service will ex- 
pire March 3, 1903. 




JOHN L. McLAURIN 



JOHN LOWNDES McLAURlN 



John Lowndes McLaurin, of Marlboro County, was born 
at Red Bluff, that county, May 9. 1860 ; was educated at 
the village school of Bennettsville, at Bethel Military 
Academy, near Warrenton. Va., at Swarthmore College, 
Philadelphia, at the Carolina Military Institute, and at the 
University of Virginia ; studied law at the last-named 
school, and was admitted to the bar in 1882 ; in 1890 was 
elected to the general assemlily of South Carolina ; was 
elected attorney-general of that State the following year ; 
was elected to the Fifty-Second. Fifty-Third, and Fifty- 
Fourth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Con- 
gress as a Democrat ; was appointed LTuited States Senator 
May 27, 1897, by Governor Ellerlje, of South Carolina, to 
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph H. Earle, 
and took his seat June 1 ; after a campaign, in which the 
question was submitted to the people of the State, elected 
to till out the unexpired term ending March 3, 1903, and 
was sworn in January 31, 1898. 




JAMES McMillan 



JAMES MCMILLAN 



James McMillan, of Detroit, Mich., was born in Ham- 
ilton, Ontario, of Scotch parents, May 12. 1838 ; in 1855 he 
removed to Detroit, where he engaged Hrst in the hard- 
ware business, and afterwards in railroad building and 
railroad purchasing. In 1868 he became a member of a 
company organized to Iniild freight cars ; was president of 
the company and of numerous affiliated companies. He 
also engaged extensively in shipbuilding, in freight and 
passenger navigation on the Great Lakes, and in various 
lines of manufacturing, in all of which enterprises he is 
still interested. He was largely instrumental in l)uilding 
the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway and the Inter- 
national bridge at Sault Ste. Marie, and until he entered 
the Senate was president of both corporations. The Grace 
Hospital. Detroit: the McMillan Hall and the McMillan 
Shakespeare Library at the University of Michigan ; a large 
entomological collection at the Michigan Agricultural Col- 
lege; a hall at the Mary Allen Seminary. Crockett, Texas, 
and the McMillan Chemical Laboratory at Albion College, 
Michigan, are some of the more conspicuous examples of 
his generosity. At the death of Senator Zachariah Chand- 
ler. Mr. McMillan became chairman of the Michigan 
Republican State central committee, which office he held 
for ten years. He was a park commissioner and a mem- 
ber of the board of estimates in Detroit, and was a presi- 
dential elector in 18S4. In 1889 he was elected to the 
United States Senate, and six years later was unanimously 
reelected. In the Senate he has been chairman of the 
committees on manufactures, the joint select committee 
on charities in the District of Columbia, and the commit- 
tee on the District of Columbia, and is still chairman of 
the two committees last mentioned. He is also a member 
of the committees on commerce and on naval affairs. 




STEPHEN R. MALLORY 



STEPHEN RUSSELL MALLORY 



Stephen Russell Mallory. of Pensacola, was born No- 
vember 2. 1S4S ; entered Confederate army in Virginia in 
the fall of 1864; in the spring of 1S65 was ajapointed mid- 
shipman in the Confederate navy ; entered Georgetown 
College. District of Columbia. November, 1865, and gradu- 
ated in June. 1869 ; taught a class at Georgetown College 
until July. 1871 ; was admitted to the bar by the supreme 
court of Louisiana at New Orleans in 1873 ; removed to 
Pensacola, Fla., in 1874, and began practicing law; was 
elected to the lower house of the legislature in 1876 ; was 
elected to the senate of Florida in 1880, and was reelected 
in 1884 ; was elected to the Fifty-Second and Fifty-Third 
Congresses from the first district of Florida, and was 
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate by the 
legislature of Florida for the term beginning March 4, 
1897. His term of service will expire March 8, 1903. 




LEE MANTLE 



LEE MANTLE 



Lee Mantle was born in England. December 13, 185L 
At the age of nine years he came to this country with his 
mother (his father being dead), and worked at first upon farms. 
A few years afterward was employed upon the construction 
of the Union Pacific Railroad, and then engaged in build- 
ing in Utah. In 1S77 located at Butte City, Mont., and 
there opened the Wells Fargo Express Company's office. 
Here he was soon interested in many enterprises. In 18JS1 
organized the Inter-Mountain Publishing Company, thus 
becoming the business manager of the hrst Repul)lican daily 
newspaper on the west side of the mountains, in Montana. 
His ability and indefatigable energy soon made him a 
consiJicuous figure in the political history of Montana. 
His rise was rapid and well merited. Has been alderman 
and mayor of his home city ; was three times elected to 
the Territorial legislature of Montana, the last time being 
made speaker; was the first president of the Mineral Land 
Association of Montana; in 1SS4 was a delegate to the 
national Republican convention; in March. 1892, the State 
legislature failed to elect a United States Senator, and he 
being the caucus nominee when the legislature adjourned, 
the governor appointed him to fill the vacancy ; the United 
States Senate, however, decided that it was the duty of 
the legislature to elect and that the governor of a State 
could not legally appoint under such circumstances, and he 
was refused a seat ; January 15, 1S*.)5, he was elected by 
the legislature to fill the existing vacancy. He was in 



LEE MANTLE 

hearty sympathy with the administration in its policy 
toward Spain, was a staunch supporter of the administra- 
tion, and voted at every opportunity for measures looking 
to Cuban belligerency and Cuban independence. His 
speech, made in the Senate on April 4, 1898, favoring the 
independence of Cuba, was remarkable for its force and 
eloquence. He is in every sense a self-made man, and 
one whom his State delights to honor. He is unmarried, 
and lives at Butte City with his aged mother, whom he 
has provided with a home ever since he was fourteen years 
of age. 




THOMAS S. MARTIN 



THOMAS STAPLES MARTIN 



Thomas Staples Martin, of Albemarle County (post 
office. Scottsville, Va.). was born in Scottsville, Albemarle 
County, July 21). 1847. and since 1853. at which time his 
parents removed to the country, has lived in the county, 
about two miles from the town; was educated at the Vir- 
ginia Military Institute, where he was a cadet from March 
1, 1S64, to April IJ, 1865, and at the University of Virginia, 
where he was a student in the academic schools for two 
sessions, from October 1. 1865, to June 29. 1866, and 
from October 1. 1866, to June 29. 1867: though not a regu- 
larly enlisted soldier, considerable part of the time while he 
was a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute was spent 
in the military service of the Confederate States with the 
battalion of cadets of the institute ; soon after leaving the 
I'niversity of Virginia he commenced the study of law by 
a course of private reading at home, and was licensed to 
practice law in the fall of 1869. since which time he has 
devoted himself closely to that profession ; for a number 
of years has been a member of the board of visitors of 
the Miller Manual Labor School, of Albemarle County, and 
a member of the board of visitors of the L^^niversity of 
Virginia, but until elected to the Senate he had never 
held nor been a candidate for any political office. State or 
national; December 19, 1893, he was elected a Senator 
from Virginia for the term commencing March 4. 1895. to 
succeed Hon. Eppa Hunton. who had been first appointed 
by the governor and then elected by the legislature to till 
the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. John S. Barbour. 
His term of service will expire March 3. 19(H. 




WILLIAM E. MASON 



WILLIAM E. MASON 



William E. Mason, of Chicago, was born in Frankliu- 
ville, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., July 7, 1S50 ; removed 
with his parents to Bentonsport, Iowa, in 1858 ; attended 
school at the Bentonsport Academy and Birmingham Col- 
lege ; taught school from LS()6 to 1870. the last two years 
at Des Moines, Iowa ; entered the law office of Hon. 
Thomas F. Withrow, and was admitted to practice law in 
Des Moines ; went to Chicago in 1872, and has practiced 
law there ever since ; was elected to the general assembly 
in 1879. to the State senate in 1881 ; was elected to the 
Fiftieth and Fifty-First Congresses and defeated for the 
Fifty-Second in the landslide of 1892 ; was elected to 
the United States Senate January 20, 1897, by a strict 
party vote, receiving 125 votes, against 78 votes for John 
P. Altgeld. Democrat. He took his seat March 4, 1897, 
His term of service will expire March 3, 1903. 



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ROGER Q. MILLS 



ROGER Q. MILLS 



Roger Q. Mills, of C'orsicana. was born in Todd County, 
Ky., March 30, 1S32 : removed to Texas in LS4y ; is a 
lawyer; was a member of the Texas legislature in 1859 
and L860 ; was colonel of the Tenth Texas Regiment ; was 
elected to Congress as a Democrat in 1<S73 and served 
continuously until he resigned to accept the position of 
United States Senator, to which he was elected March 23, 
1892. to succeed Hon. Horace Chilton, who had been ap- 
pointed by the governor to hll the vacancy caused by the 
resignation of Hon. John H. Reagan until the meeting 
of the legislature: took his seat March 30. 1892; was 
reelected in 1893. His term of service" will expire March 
3. 1899. 




JOHN L. MITCHELL 



JOHN LENDRUM MITCHELL 



John Lendrum Mitchell, of Milwaukee, was born in 
Milwaukee, Wis.. October ID, 1S42; acquired the rudiments 
of an education in the Milwaukee public schools, followed 
by a course in a military school in Hampton. Conn.; he 
was then sent abroad and studied in Dresden, Munich, and 
Geneva; upon the breaking out of the Rebellion he returned 
home, and at the age of nineteen entered the military 
service as second lieutenant of Company L Twenty-Fourth 
Wisconsin Volunteers; promoted to be first lieutenant 
January 17, 1863. and transferred to Company E, same reg- 
iment; in June. 1863, was detailed for service on brigade 
staff of General Rousseau ; participated in the battles and 
engagements of his regiment, including Perryville, Mur- 
freesboro, Hoovers Gap, and the campaigns about Chatta- 
nooga ; threatened with loss of eyesight, and on surgeon's 
certificate of disability he resigned his commission, which 
was accepted ; was a member of the State senate of Wis- 
consin in 1872-73 and 1875 -76 ; president of the Milwaukee 
school board 1884-85 ; president of the Wisconsin State 
Agricultural Society, and president of the Northwestern 
Trotting-Horse Breeders' Association ; in 18S6, by joint 
resolution of Congress, he was appointed a member of 
the board of managers of the National Home for Disabled 
Volunteer Soldiers ; reappointed in 181)'2, and elected vice- 
president of the l)oard in 1895 ; was a memlier of the 
national Democratic committee four years, and in 1892 
was chairman of the Democratic congressional committee; 
is vice-president of the Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insur- 
ance Company Bank, and of the Northwestern National 
Insurance Company ; was elected to the Fifty-Second and 
Fifty-Third Congresses as a Democrat ; was elected to the 
United States Senate, and took his seat March 4, 1893. 
His term of service will expire March 3, 1899. 




HERNANDO DE SOTO MONEY 



HERNANDO DE SOTO MONEY 



Hernando De Soto Money, of Carrollton, was born 
August '26, 1889, in Holmes County. Miss.; was educated at 
the University of Mississippi, at Oxford, Miss.; is a lawyer 
and planter; served in the Confederate army from the be- 
ginning of the war until September 2(5, IHi'A. when he was 
forced to retire from service by defective eyesight ; was 
elected as a Democrat to the House of Representatives in 
the Forty-Fourth. Forty-Fifth, Forty-Sixth, Forty-Seventh, 
Forty-Eighth, Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses ; 
in January, 1896. was elected to the Senate for the term 
beginning March 4, 1S99 ; was appointed to the Senate 
October 8, 1897, to fill the vacancy caused by the death 
of Hon. J. Z. George on August 14. 1897 ; elected by the 
legislature to hll out the unexpired term ending March 3, 
1899, and sworn in January 24, 1898. 




JOHN T. MORGAN 



JOHN T. MORGAN 



John T. Morgan, of Selnia, was horn at Athens. Tenn.. 
June 20, 1824 ; received an academic education, chiefly in 
Alabama, to which State he emigrated when nine years 
old, and where he has since resided; studied law, was 
admitted to the bar in 1845, and practiced until his elec- 
tion to the Senate; was a presidential elector in 18G0 for 
the State at large and voted for Breckinridge and Lane ; 
was a delegate in 1861 from Dallas County to the State 
convention which passed the ordinance of secession; joined 
the Confederate army in May. ISGI. as a private in C'om- 
pany I, Cahaba Rifles, and when that company was 
assigned to the Fifth Alabama Regiment, under Col. Robert 
E. Rodes, he was elected major, and afterwards lieutenant- 
colonel of that regiment ; was commissioned iu 1862 as 
colonel and raised the Fifty-First Alabama Regiment ; was 
appointed brigadier-general in 1868 and assigned to a bri- 
gade in Virginia, but resigned to join his regiment, whose 
colonel had been killed iu battle ; later in 1863 he was again 
appointed brigadier-general and assigned to an Alabama 
brigade, which included his regiment ; after the war he 
resumed the practice of his profession at Selma ; was chosen 
a presidential elector for the State at large in 1876 and 
voted for Tilden and Hendricks ; was elected to the United 
States Senate as a Democrat, to succeed George Gold- 
thwaite, Democrat ; took his seat March 5. 1877 ; was 
reelected in 1882, in 1888. and again in 1894. His term of 
service will expire March 3, 1901. 




JUSTIN S. MORRILL 



JUSTIN SMITH MORRILL 



Justin Smith Morrill, of Strafford, was born at Straf- 
ford, Vt., April 14, 1810; received a common-school and 
academic education ; was a merchant, and afterwards en- 
gaged in agricultural pursuits ; was a Representative in the 
Thirty-Fourth, Thirty-Fifth. Thirty-Sixth. Thirty-Seventh, 
Thirty-Eighth, and Thirty-Ninth Congresses ; was elected to 
the United States Senate as a Union Reiiublican, to suc- 
ceed Luke P. Poland. ITnion Republican, and took his seat 
March 4, 1867 ; was reelected in 1872, in 1878, in 1884, in 
1890, and in 1896. He was a regent of the Smithsonian 
Institution from 1880 until his death. His term of serv- 
ice would have expired March 3, 1903, but on the 2Sth of 
December. 1898, the aged Senator died at his residence in 
Washington. D. C, after a short illness. 




EDWARD MURPHY Jr. 



EDWARD MURPHY, Jr. 



Edward Murphy, Jr., of Troy, was born in Troy De- 
cember 15, 1836 ; was educated at St. John's College, Ford- 
ham ; was elected mayor of the city of Troy in 1875 and 
reelected in 1877, 1879, and 1881 ; was elected chairman 
of the Democratic State committee of New York in 1887, 
and held that position until 1895 ; was a delegate to the 
national Democratic conventions of 1880, 1884, and 1888, 
and was chairman of the delegation in 1892; was elected 
a delegate at large to the national convention of 1896, but 
illness prevented his being present; was elected United 
States Senator in January. 1893. to succeed Frank Hiscock ; 
took his seat March 4, 1893. His term of service will expire 
March 3, 1899. 




KNUTE NELSON 



KNUTE NELSON 



Knute Nelson, of Alexandria, was born in Norway 
February 2, 1843; came to the United States in July, 1849. 
and resided in Chicago, 111., until the fall of 1850, when 
he removed to the 8tate of Wisconsin, and from there he 
removed to Minnesota in July, 1871 ; was a private and 
noncommissioned officer in the Fourth Wisconsin Regiment 
during the War of the Rebellion, and was wounded and 
taken prisoner at Port Hudson, La., June 14, 18(58 ; was 
admitted to the bar in the spring of 1867 ; was a member 
of the assembly in the Wisconsin legislature in 1868 and 
186i); was county attorney of Douglas County, Minn., in 
1872. 1873, and 1874 ; was State senator in 1875, 1876. 1877. 
and 1878; was presidential elector in 1880; was a member 
of the board of regents of the State university from Feb- 
ruary 1. 1882. to January 1, 1893 ; was a member of the 
Forty-Eighth, Forty-Ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses for the 
fifth district of Minnesota ; was elected governor of Minne- 
sota in the fall of 1892 and reelected in the fall of 1894 : 
was elected Ignited States Senator for Minnesota January 
23. 1895. for the term commencing ]\iarch 4. 1895. His 
term of service will expire March 3, 1901. 




SAMUEL PASCO 



SAMUEL PASCO 



Samuel Pasco, of Monticello, was born in London, Eng- 
land; when quite young removed with his father first to 
Prince Edward Island, thence to Massachusetts ; was pre- 
pared for college at the high school in Charlestown and 
graduated at Harvard in 1858 ; in January, 1859, he went 
to Florida to take charge of the Waukeenah Academy, in 
Jefferson County, where he has ever since resided ; in July, 
1861, entered the Confederate army as a private ; at the 
close of the war became clerk of the circuit court of his 
county ; was admitted to the bar in 1868 ; in 1872 became 
a member of the Democratic State committee, and from 
1876 to 1888 was its chairman ; has represented Florida on 
the Democratic national committee since 1880; in 1880 was 
elected a presidential elector at large : in 1885 was presi- 
dent of the constitutional convention of his State ; in 1887, 
while speaker of the State house of representatives, was 
elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat, to suc- 
ceed Charles W. Jones. The legislature charged with the 
election of his successor had not met at the expiration of 
his term and he was appointed by the governor to serve 
during the interim ; when the legislature assembled in 
April, 1893, he was nominated by acclamation and reelected 
unanimously. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899. 




BOIES PENROSE 



BOIES PENROSE 



Boies Penrose, of Philadelphia, was born in Philadel- 
phia November 1, 1860; was prepared for college by 
private tutors and in the schools of Philadelphia ; was 
graduated from Harvard College in ISSl ; read law with 
Wayne McVeagh and Oeorge Tucker Bispham, and was 
admitted to the bar in 1SS8 ; practiced his profession in 
partnership with S. Davis Page and Edward P. Allinson 
under the firm name of Page. Allinson & Penrose ; was 
elected to the Pennsylvania house of representatives from 
the eighth Philadelphia district in 1SS4: in connection 
with Edward P. Allinson. wrote, at the request of Johns 
Hopkins University, for the university studies in historical 
and political science, a "History of the City Government 
of Philadelphia ; " was elected to the Pennsylvania State 
senate from the sixth Philadelphia district in 1886, 
reelected in 189U. and again in 1894; was elected presi- 
dent pro tempore of the senate in 1889, and reelected in 
1891 ; was elected to the United States Senate as a Re- 
publican to succeed J. Donald Cameron, and took his seat 
March 4, 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 
1903. 




GEORGE C. PERKINS 



GEORGE CLEMENT PERKINS 



George Clement Perkins, of Oakland, was born at Kenne- 
bunkport. Me., in ISSS). His ancestry is traced back to the 
days when Sir Ferdinand Gorges was appointed governor- 
general of New England. His forefathers were among the 
earliest settlers of Maine ; they were earnest, laborious, strong- 
headed people of deep religious convictions. His father, 
Clement Perkins, was a seafaring man, engaged in trading 
with the West Indies. His mother, whose maiden name 
was Lucinda Fairchild, was a relative of Governor Fair- 
child, and also of Governor King, one of the earliest gov- 
ernors of Maine after its segregation from Massachusetts. 
At the age of twelve he went to sea as a cabin boy ; fol- 
lowed this calling and that of a sailor for several years ; 
in 1855 shipped '"before the mast" on a sailing vessel 
bound for San Francisco, C'al., where he arrived in the 
autumn of that year ; engaged in mercantile business at 
Oroville and was very successful ; subsequently engaged in 
banking, milling, mining, and the steamship business, in 
which he has been engaged during the past twenty-five 
years, operating steamships on the coasts of California, 
Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska, and Mexico; 
in 1868 was elected to the State Senate, serving eight years ; 
has been president of the Merchants' Exchange in San 
Francisco, also of the San Francisco Art Association ; 
director California Academy of Sciences, and other public 
institutions : in 1879 he was elected governor of California, 
serving until January, 1883 ; was apnoiuted, July 24, 1893, 



GEORGE CLEMENT PERKINS 

United States Senator, to till, until the election of his suc- 
cessor, the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Leland 
Stanford, and took his seat August 8, 1893. In January, 
1895, having made a thorough canvass before the people 
of his State, he was elected by the legislature on the first 
ballot to fill the unexpired term. In the fall election of 
1896 he was a candidate before the people of California 
for reelection, and received the indorsement of the Repub- 
lican county conventions that comprised a majority of the 
senatorial and assembly districts in the State. When the 
legislature convened in joint convention (January, 1897) 
for the purpose of electing a United States Senator, he 
was reelected on the first ballot, although at the time he 
was absent from the State attending to his congressional 
duties. 

Such is the life of one who began to be his own guar- 
dian at twelve years of age, and who has leaned upon no 
one since. Landing on these shores a friendless and almost 
penniless lad of seventeen, in five or six years he had won 
a respectable place among the merchants of California. 
At thirty a State senator, at forty a governor, and at 
forty-four a Senator of the United States. As a repre- 
sentative of this State in Congress, none surpass him in 
energy and attention to business or in the zeal which 
actuates him in his desire to faithfully represent the 
people. 




RICHARD F. PETTIGREW 



RICHARD FRANKLIN PETTIGREW 



Richard Franklin Pettigrew, of Sioux Falls, was born 
at Ludlow, Vt.. July, 1848; removed with his parents to 
Evausville, Rock Count3% Wis., in 1854; was prepared for 
college at the Evausville Academy and entered Beloit Col- 
lege in 1866, where he remained two years ; was a member 
of the law class of 1870. University of Wisconsin ; went to 
Dakota in July, 1869, in the employ of a United States 
deputy surveyor, as a laborer ; located in Sioux Falls, 
where he engaged in the surveying and real estate busi- 
ness ; opened a law office in 1872, and has been in the 
practice of his profession since ; was elected to the Dakota 
legislature as a member of the council in 1877, and reelected 
in 1879 ; was elected to the Forty-Seventh Congress as 
delegate from Dakota Territory ; was elected to the Ter- 
ritorial council of 1884-85; was a member. of the South 
Dakota constitutional convention of 1883 ; was chairman 
of the committee on public indebtedness, and framed the 
present provisions of the constitution on that sul^ject ; 
was elected L'nited States Senator October 16. 1889, under 
the provisions of the act of Congress admitting South 
Dakota into the Union ; took his seat December- 2, 1889 ; 
was reelected in 1895. His term of service will expire 
March 3, 19Ul. 




EDMUND W. PETTUS 



EDMUND WINSTON PETTUS 



Edmund Winston Pettus, of Selma, was born in Lime- 
stone Count}'. Ala.. July 6, 1S21 ; is the youngest child 
of John Pettus and Alice T. Pettus, who was a daugh- 
ter of Capt. Anthony Winston, of Virginia, a Revolutionary 
soldier; was educated at the common schools in Alabama 
and at Clinton College, in Smith County, Tennessee; studied 
law in the ofhce of William Cc^oper, then the leader of the 
bar in north Alabama ; was admitted to the bar in 1842, and 
commenced the practice of law at Gainesville, Ala., as the 
partner of Hon. Turner Reavis; in 1844 was elected solicitor 
for the seventh circuit ; served as a lieutenant in the Mex- 
ican War; in 1849 resigned the office of solicitor and went, 
with a party of his neighbors, on horseback to California ; 
was elected judge of the seventh circuit after his return 
to Alabama in 1855. but resigned that office in 1858, and 
removed to Dallas County, where he now resides ; resumed 
the practice of law as a member of the firm of Pettus, 
Pegues & Dawson ; in 1861 went into the Confederate 
army as major of the Twentietli Alabama Infantry, and 
soon afterwards was made lieutenant-colonel of that regi- 
ment; in October, 1863. was made a brigadier-general of 
infantry, and served till the close of the war, and he was 
in many battles ; after the war returned to his home and 
to the practice of law, and has continued at that work 
ever since ; ever since he became a voter has been a mem- 
ber of the Democratic party ; in November, 1896, was 
nominated by that party, and elected by the legislature 



EDMUND WINSTON PETTUS 

of Alabama United States Senator for the term commenc- 
ing March 4, 1897 ; after his nomination the opposition to 
his election was merely nominal ; received the entire vote 
of his party, and more ; never was, before, a candidate for 
any political office ; has been a delegate to all of the 
Democratic national conventions, except the first and last, 
since the war, and when a delegate was chairman of the 
Alabama delegation. On the 27th of June, 1844, Mr. Pet- 
tus married Mary L. Chapman, daughter of Judge Samuel 
Chapman, of Alabama. Of their six children, three sons 
died in early infancy ; and two daughters and one son 
now live in Alabama. Mrs. Pettus is now with her hus- 
band in Washington, and is in perfect health. 




ORVILLE H. PLATT 



ORVILLE H. PLATT 



Orville H. 1 latt, of Meriden. was boru at Washiug- 
toD, Conn.. July 19, 1S27 ; received an academic education ; 
studied law at Litchfield ; was admitted to the bar in 
1849 and has since practiced law at Meriden ; was clerk 
of the State senate of Connecticut in lS55-5(> ; was secre- 
tary of state of Connecticut in 1S57 ; was a menil)er of 
the State senate in 1861-62 ; was a memlier of the State 
house of representatives in 1864 and 1S(')'.I, serving the last 
year as speaker ; was elected to the United States Senate 
as a Republican, to succeed William H. Barnum. Demo- 
crat (who had been elected to till the vacancy occasioned 
by the death of Orris S. Ferry. Republican) ; took his seat 
March 18. l.S7i) ; was reelected in 1885. 1890. and 1897. 
His term of service will expire March 8, 19U3. 




THOMAS C. PLATT 



THOMAS COLLIER PLATT 



Thomas Collier Platt, of Owego, was born in Owego, 
N. Y., Jnly 15, 1S33 ; was prepared for college at the 
Owego Academy ; was a memlier of the class of 1S53 of 
Yale College, but was compelled to give up the course in 
that institution on account of ill health ; received the 
honorary degree of M. A. from that college in 1876 ; 
entered mercantile life soon after leaving school, and has 
been in active business since ; was president of the Tioga 
National Bank at its organization ; became largely inter- 
ested in the lumbering business in Michigan ; was county 
clerk of the county of Tioga in 1859. iSfiO. and 1S61 ; was 
elected to the Forty-Third and Forty-Fourth Congresses ; 
was elected United States Senator January 18, 1881, and 
resigned that office May 16 of the same year; was chosen 
secretary and director of the United States Express Com- 
pany in 1879. and in 1880 was elected president of the 
company ; was member and president of the board of 
quarantine commissioners of New York from 1880 till 
1888; was delegate to the national Republican conven- 
tions of 1876. 1880, 1884, 1888. 1892, and 1896; was presi- 
dent of the Southern Central Railroad-, has been a 
member of the national Republican committee : was 
elected United States Senator in 1896. and took his seat 
March 4, 1897. His term of service will expire March 3, 
1903. 




JETER C. PRITCHARD 



JETER C. PRITCHARD 



Jeter C. Pritchard was born in Jouesboro, Tenn., on 
the 12th day of July, 1857. His father, William H. 
Pritchard or Pritchett, was a private in the Confederate 
army, being a member of a company of which his brother 
Mark was captain. Senator Pritchard at the age of twelve 
years was apprenticed to Dr. W. C. Wheeler, one of the 
proprietors of the Hoahl (nid TrilniHc. a Republican news- 
paper published at Jonesboro. Tenn. After learning the 
trade, was employed as foreman of the Union Flay, pub- 
lished by Capt. Edgar Grissom. The Union Flag was a 
Republican paper and was also published at Jonesboro, 
Tenn. Capt. Urissom died with cholera in the year 1872, 
and Senator Pritchard left Tennessee and went to North 
Carolina, where he was first employed as foreman of the 
Bakersville Independent. He afterwards became one of 
the proprietors of the paper, and convei'ted it into a Re- 
publican organ : was licensed to practice law in 1887. In 
1877 he moved to Madison County. N. C. where he now 
resides. He was elected to the State legislature as a 
memlier of the lower house for three terms, and was the 
Republican caucus nominee for United States Senator in 
the year 1891. when Senator Vance was reelected. He was 
the Republican candidate for Congress in 1892, and. although 
he succeeded in reducing the former majority, his oppo- 
nent. Mr. Crawford, was elected. He was elected to the 
United States Senate on the 24th day of January, 1895. to 
succeed Senator Vance, and was reelected to the Senate 
in January, 1897. 




REDFIELD PROCTOR 



REDFIELD PROCTOR 



Redfield Proctor, of Proctor, was born in Proctorsville, 
Vt., June 1, 1831 ; graduated at Dartmouth College and at 
the Albany Law School ; served as lieutenant and quarter- 
master of the Third Regiment of Vermont Volunteers, on 
the staff of Maj.-Gen. William F. ("Baldy") Smith, and was 
major of the Fifth and colonel of the Fifteenth Vermont 
Regiments ; was a member of the Vermont house of repre- 
sentatives in 1867, 18()S. and ISSS; was a member of the 
State senate and pr-esideut jiro fciiipore of that body in 
1874 and 1875 ; was lieutenant-governor from 1876 to 1878, 
and governor from 1878 to 1880; was a delegate to the 
Republican national convention of 1884. and chairman of 
the Vermont delegation in the same conventions of 1888 
and 1896; was appointed Secretary of War by President 
Harrison in March, 1889; in November, 1891, he resigned 
from the Cabinet to accept the ap])ointment as United 
States Senator, to succeed George F. Edmunds, and October 
18, 1892. was elected by the Vermont legislature to hll 
both the unexpired and the full terms. His term of serv- 
ice will expire in 1899. 




MATTHEW S. QUAY 



MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY 



Matthew Stanley Quay, of Beaver, was born in Dills- 
burg, York County, Pa., September 80, 1833; was prepared 
for college at Beaver and Indiana academies ; was gradu- 
ated from Jefferson College in 1S50; was admitted to the 
bar in 1854 ; was elected prothouotary of Beaver County 
in 1856, and reelected in 1859 ; was a lieutenant in Tenth 
Pennsylvania Reserves ; was colonel of the One Hundred 
and Thirty-Fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers; was lieuten- 
ant-colonel and assistant commissary -general ; was State 
military agent at Washington ; was private secretary to 
the governor of Pennsylvania; was major and chief of 
transportation and telegraphs ; was military secretary to 
the governor of Pennsylvania 1861-65 ; was a member of 
the legislature 1865-67 ; was secretary of the common- 
wealth 1872-78; was recorder of the city of Philadelphia 
and chairman of the Republican State committee 1878 79 ; 
was secretary of the commonwealth 1879-8'2 ; was delegate 
at large to the Republican national conventions of 1872, 
1876, and 1880 ; was elected State treasurer in 1885 ; was 
elected a member of the Republican national committee 
and chosen chairman thereof and r.r officio chairman of the 
executive committee when the committee organized in 
July, 1888, and conducted the successful presidential cam- 
paign of that year; was a delegate to the Republican 
national convention of 1S92 and voted against the renom- 
ination of Benjamin Harrison ; was chairman Republican 
State committee 1895-96; was a delegate to the Republi- 
can national convention of 1896 ; was elected a member of 
the Republican national committee and chosen a member 
of the executive committee in 1S96; was elected to the 
United States Senate as a Republican, to succeed John I. 
Mitchell, and took his seat March 4, 1887, and was reelected 
in 1893. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899. 




JOSEPH L. RAWLINS 



JOSEPH LAFAYETTE RAWLINS 



Joseph Lafayette Rawlins, of Salt Lake City, was born 
in Salt Lake County, L^tah, March 28, LS50; lived on a 
farm until eighteen years of age ; completed a classical 
course in the LTniversity of Indiana, but, having gone to 
Utah, did not return for graduation ; was professor in the 
University of Deseret, in Salt Lake City, LTtah. for two 
years, until 1875 ; was admitted to the bar in that year 
and followed the profession of the law until his election 
as delegate in 1892 ; in politics has always been a Demo- 
crat; was elected to the Fifty-Third Congress as delegate 
on the Democratic ticket, and was defeated for the Fifty- 
Fourth Congress by Hon. Frank J. Cannon, and was 
elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat in 1S97 ; 
took his seat March 4, 1897. His term of service will ex- 
pire March 3, 19U3. 





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WILLIAM N. ROACH 



WILLIAM NATHANIEL ROACH 



William Nathaniel Roach, of Lariniore. was born in 
Washington. D. C. September 25, 1840 ; was educated in the 
city schools and Georgetown College ; was a clerk in the 
quartermaster's depai-tmeut during the war; removed to 
Dakota Territory in llSTiJ; was interested in mail contracts 
for several years ; took up laud in Dakota and developed a 
farm, and has been engaged in agriculture since ; was 
mayor of Larimore from 18S3 to 1887; was a member of 
the Territorial legislature of the session of 1885 ; was 
Democratic candidate for governor at the first State elec- 
tion and was defeated by John Miller; was renominated 
at the next election and was again defeated ; was elected 
United States Senator February 20, 1803. after thirty-three 
days' balloting, upon the sixty-first ballot, receiving twenty- 
three Democratic, seventeen Populist, and ten Republican 
votes, against forty-two Republican votes cast for H. F. 
Miller, Republican ; took his seat March 4, 1893. His term 
of service will expire March 3, 1899. 



WILLIAM J. SEWELL 



William J. Sewell, of Camden, was born in Ireland in 
1835, and came to this country at an early age ; engaged 
in mercantile pursuits, and at the outbreak of the Civil 
War was commissioned as captain of the Fifth New Jersey 
Volunteers ; served during the war and was brevetted 
brigadier-general for distinguished services at Chancellors- 
ville, and major-general for gallant services during the war ; 
was wounded at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg ; after the 
war he became connected with the railroads in New Jersey, 
branches of the Pennsylvania railroad system ; was elected 
State senator from Camden County in 1872, reelected in 
1875, and again in 1878, and was president of the senate in 
the years 1876, 1879, and 1880. when his party was in power; 
while yet a member of the legislature he was elected to 
the United States Senate in 1881, as the successor of Senator 
Theodore F. Randolph, and served until the close of his term, 
in 1887 ; was elected as a delegate to the Republican na- 
tional conventions of 1876, 1880, 1884, 1888, and 1892, and 
on each occasion was made chairman of his delegation ; 
was one of the national commissioners for New Jersey of 
the World's Fair at Chicago ; is vice-president of the lioard 
of managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer 
Soldiers ; is in command of the second brigade of the 
National Guard of New Jersey, and also connected with 
the management of various banks, trust companies, and 
philanthropic societies ; was again elected to the United 
States Senate in 1895. to succeed Hon. John R. McPherson. 
His term of service will expire March 3, 1901. 




GEORGE L. SHOUP 



GEORGE LAIRD SHOUP 



George Laird Shoup, of Boise, was born at Kittanning, 
Armstrong County, Pa., June L'J, LS36 ; was educated in 
the public schools of Freeport and Slate Lick ; moved 
with his father to Illinois in .Tune, 1S52 ; was engaged in 
farming and stock raising near Galesburg until 1S5S ; re- 
moved to Colorado in 1859 ; was engaged in mining and 
mercantile business until ISfJl ; in September, 1S61. en- 
listed in (Japtain Baekus's independent company of scouts, 
and was soon thereafter commissioned second lieutenant ; 
during the autumn and winter of 1801 was engaged in 
scouting along the base of the Rocky Mountains ; was 
oi'dered to Fort Union. N. Mex.. in the early part of 
LSG'2 ; was kept on scouting duty on the Canadian, Pecos, 
and Red Rivers until the spring of 1S(58, and daring this 
time was promoted to a first lieutenancy ; was then 
ordered to the Arkansas River ; had been assigned in 1862 
to the Second Regiment Colorado Volunteer Infantry, but 
was retained on duty in the cavalry service ; was assigned 
to the First Colorado Regiment of Cavalry in May, 1863 ; 
in 1864 was elected to the constitutional convention to 
prepare a constitution for the proposed State of Colorado, 
and obtained leave of absence for thirty days to serve as 
a member of said convention ; after performing this serv- 
ice he returned to active duty in the Army : was com- 
missioned colonel of the Third Colorado Cavalry in 
September, 1864, and was mustered out in Denver with 
the regiment at the expiration of term of service : en- 
gaged in the mercantile business in Virginia City, Mont., 



GEORGE LAIRD SHOUP 

ill 1866, and during the same year established a business 
at Salmon City, Idaho ; since 1866 has been engaged in 
mining, stock raising, mercantile, and other business in 
Idaho ; was a member of the Territorial legislature during 
the eighth and tenth sessions : was a delegate to the 
national Eepublican convention in 1880 ; was a member 
of the Kepulilican national committee from 1880 to 1884 ; 
was United States commissioner for Idaho at the World's 
Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans, La., in 
1884-85 ; was again placed on the Eepuljlican national 
committee in 1888, reelected in 1892. and again in 1896; 
was appointed governor of Idaho Territory in March, 1889, 
which position he held until elected governor of the State 
of Idaho, October 1, I8il0 ; was elected to the United 
States Senate as a Republican December 18, 1890. and 
took his seat December 29, 1890; was reelected in 1895. 
His term of service will expire March 8, 1901. 




JOSEPH SIMON 



JOSEPH SIMON 



Joseph Simon, of Portland, was born in Gei'many in 
1851, and came to this country with his parents when but 
one year old. going to Oregon in 1857 ; has continuously re- 
sided in the city of Portland ; obtained his education in the 
public schools of Portland ; in 187'2 was admitted to the bar 
and is now, and for many years past has been, a memlier of 
the law firm of Dolph, Mallory & Simon ; was elected to the 
city council of Portland in 1877, and served as a member 
of that body three years ; was elected secretary of the Re- 
publican State central committee in 1878, and managed the 
State campaign of that year ; was chosen chairman of the 
Republican State central committee of Oregon in 1880, 1884, 
and 1886, and had charge of the State and national cam- 
paigns of those years in Oregon ; was chosen a delegate to 
the Republican national convention which met at Minne- 
apolis in 181)2, and was there selected as the member of the 
national committee for Oregon ; was elected to the State 
senate from Multnomah County in 1880, 1884. 1888. 1894, 
and 1898 ; if he were to serve out the term to which he was 
last elected he would have served twenty years as a memlier 
of that body ; was chosen president of the senate at the 
sessions of 1889, 1891, 1895, and 1897, and at the special ses- 
sion of 1898, and, the State having no lieutenant-governor, 
he presided over the senate and over the joint conventions 
of both houses ; was elected to the Ignited States Senate as 
a Republican October 6, 1898, to fill a vacancy that had 
existed since March 4, 1897. His term of service will expire 
March 3, 1903. 




JAMES SMITH, Jr. 



JAMES SMITH, Jr. 



James Smith. Jr., of Newark, was bovu in that city June 
12, 1.S51 ; his first office was member of the common coun- 
cil of his city, when he was elected in a Republican district 
by more majority than his opjjonent had votes; was nomi- 
nated for mayor of his city, 1)ut declined, and has been 
tendered nearly every office in the gift of his party in the 
State, but has always refused office ; is a manufacturer 
of patent and enameled leather in Newark, and conducts 
the largest business of the kind in the country ; was elected 
to the United States Senate as a Democrat to succeed Hon. 
Rufus Blodgett, Democrat, and took his seat March 4, 
isya. His term of service will expire March 3, 1899. 




JOHN C. SPOONER 



JOHN C. SPOONER 



John C. Spooner, of Madison, was born in Lawrence- 
burg, Dearborn County. Ind., January 6, 1S43; removed 
with his father's family to Wisconsin and settled at Mad- 
ison June 1, 1S59 ; graduated at the State University in 
lS(i4 ; was private in Company D. Fortieth Regiment, and 
captain of Company A, Fiftieth Kegiment. Wisconsin In- 
fantry Volunteers: was brevetted major at the close of 
service; was private and military secretary of Gov. Lucius 
Fairchild. of Wisconsin ; was admitted to the bar in 1S()7, 
and served as assistant attorney-general of the State until 
1.S70, when he removed to Hudson, where he practiced law 
from 1870 until 18S4 ; was member of the assembly from 
St. Croix County in 187"2 ; member of the board of regents 
of the Wisconsin University ; was elected United States 
Senator as a Repul)lican, to succeed Angus Cameron, Re- 
publican, for the term beginning March 4, 1885 : was 
chairman of the Wisconsin delegation to national Repub- 
lican convention in ISSS : was succeeded as United States 
Senator March 4, 1891. by William F. Vilas, Democrat, re- 
ceiving, how^ever. the full vote of the Republican meml)ers 
of the legislature for reelection ; was chairman of the 
Wisconsin delegation to national Repul)lican convention at 
Minneapolis in 18U2 ; was unanimously nominated as Re- 
publican candidate for governor of W'isconsin in 1892. but 
was defeated; removed from Hudson to Madison in 181)3; 
has been actively engaged in the practice of the law since 
April, 1893 ; unanimously nominated in Republican caucus 
January 13, 1897. and duly elected January 27, 1897, United 
States Senator for the term beginning March 4, 1897, to 
succeed William F. Vilas, Democrat, receiving 117 votes, 
against 8 votes for W. C. Silverthorn. and 2 votes for 
Edward S. Bragg. His term of service will expire March 
3, 1903. 




WILLIAM M. STEWART 



WILLIAM MORRIS STEWART 



William Morris Stewart, of Carson City, was born in 
Lyons, Wayne County, N. Y.. August 9, 1827; removed 
with his parents, while a small child, to Mesopotamia Town- 
ship, Trumbull County, (_)hio ; attended Lyons ITnion School 
and Farmington Academy ; was teacher of mathematics in 
the former school while yet a pupil ; with the little money 
thus earned and the assistance of James C. Smith, one of 
the judges of the supreme court of New York, he entered 
Yale College, remaining there till the winter of 1849-50, 
when, attracted by the gold discoveries in California, he 
found his way thither, arriving at San Fi-ancisco in May, 
1850; he immediately engaged in mining with pick and 
shovel in Nevada County, and in this way accumulated 
some money ; in the spring of 1852 he commenced the 
study of law under John R. McConnell, and in December 
following was appointed district attorney, to which office 
he was elected at the general election of the next year; 
in 1854 was appointed attorney-general of California; in 
1860 he removed to Virginia City, Nev., where he was 
largely engaged in early mining litigation and in the 
development of the Comstock lode ; was chosen a member 
of the Territorial council in 1861 ; in 1863 was elected a 
memlier of the constitutional convention ; was elected 
United States Senator in 1864 and r^elected in 1869 ; in 
1875 he resumed the practice of law in Nevada, California, 
and the Pacific Coast generally, and was thus engaged 
when elected to the United States Senate, as a Republican, 
in 1887, to succeed James G. Fair, Democrat, and took his 
seat March 4, 1887 ; was reelected in 1893. His term of 
service will expire March 3. 1899. 




WILL VAN AMBERG SULLIVAN 



WILL VAN AMBERG SULLIVAN 



Will Van Amberg Sullivan, of Oxford, was born De- 
cember 18, 1857, near Winona, Miss.; received his education 
near Sardis, in Panola County, at a country school, at the 
University of Mississippi, and at the Vanderbilt University, 
Nashville, Tenn.; jiraduated from the latter institution in 
1875 ; completed the two years' law course during his 
university period ; began the practice of law in the fall of 
1875 at Austin, in Tunica County, where he continued to 
reside till March, 1877. when lie moved to Oxford. Miss., at 
which place he has continued in the practice of law since; 
has never been a candidate for any office ; was a member 
of the Democratic national convention in 1892. and was, 
by the national Democratic convention of 1896, at the 
request of the State of Mississippi, elected a member for 
Mississippi of the national Democratic executive commit- 
tee, which position he now holds ; was nominated for 
Congress, though not a candidate for the position, but a 
deadlock between the four aspirants having continued for 
several days the nomination was tendered to and accepted 
by him ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a 
Democrat, receiving 6,941 votes, against 692 votes for M. 
A. Montgomery, Republican. 1.472 votes for F. E. Ray. Pop- 
ulist, and 779 votes for W. D. Miller. Independent; was 
appointed and sworn in as United States Senator from 
the State of Mississippi on May 30, 1898, as successor of 
Senator E. C. Walthall, decea.sed. 




HENRY M. TELLER 



HENRY M. TELLER 



Henry M. Teller, of Central City, was born in Allegany 
County, N. Y.. May 28, ISW: studied law. was admitted 
to the bar in New York, and lias since practiced : removed 
to Illinois in LS5S. and from there to Colorado in 1S61 ; 
never held ofiice until he was elected to the United States 
Senate (on the admission of Colorado as a State), and took 
his seat December 4. ls7(i: was reelected December 11. 
lH7fi. and served until A]»i-il 17. 1SS2. when he was appointed 
Secretary of the Interior l)y President Arthur, and served 
until March 3, 18IS5; was again elected to the I'nited States 
Senate as a Republican, to succeed Nathaniel P. Hill. Re- 
publican, and took his seat March 4. 1SS5 ; was reelected 
in ISyo and in 181)7. His term of service will expire March 
3. 1908. 




JOHN M. THURSTON 



JOHN MELLEN THURSTON 



John Mellen Thurston, of Omalm, was born at Mont- 
pelier, Vt., August 'Jl. 1S47 : his ancestors were Puritans; 
their settlement in this rounti-y dates back to 1636 ; his 
grandfather Melleu and great-grandfather Thurston were 
both soldiers in the IJevolutionary War ; his parents removed 
to Wisconsin in 1854 ; his father was a private soldier in 
the First Wisconsin Cavalry, and died in the service in the 
spring of 1S68; was educated in the public schools and at 
Wayland I'niversity, Beaver Dam. Wis., supporting himself 
by farm work, driving teams, and other numual lal)or ; was 
admitted to the l)ar May '2\. lS6i>. and in October of the 
same year located in Omaha, where he has since resided; 
was elected a menil)er of the city council in 187'J, city at- 
torney of Omaha in 1.S74, and a member of the Nebraska 
legislature in IS?-") ; was a member of the Republican na- 
tional convention in 1SS4 and temporary chairman of the 
Republican national convention in ISSS; was pre.sident of 
the Repul)lican League of the Vnited States, 1.SS9 to 1H91 ; 
in 1.S77 he became assistant attorney of the Union Pacific 
Railway Company, and in February, 188S. was appointed 
general solicitor of the I'nion Pacific system, and held that 
position at the time of his election to the Senate ; was the 
Republican caucus nominee for I'nited States Senator in 
the Nebraska legislature in January. 1893. and received 
the entire party vote, lacking five votes of election ; Jan- 
uary 1, IS'.)"), was tendeied in writing the unanimous vote 
of the entire Republican membership in the legislature, 
and was elected January 15, 1895. for the teim commencing 
March 4. 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 
190T 




BENJAMIN R. TILLMAN 



BENJAMIN RYAN TILLMAN 



Benjamin Ryan Tillman, of Trenton, was born in Edge- 
field Connty. S. C. Angust IL 1S47 ; received an academic 
education under the instruction of (ieorge Goljjhin at 
Bethany, in the same county : quit school in July. lS(i4, 
to join the Confederate army. l)ut was stricken with a 
severe illness, which caused the loss of his left eye and 
kept him an invalid for two years : followed farming as a 
pursuit and took no active part in politics till he began 
the agitation in IS.S() for industrial and technical education 
which culminated in the establishment of the Clemson 
Agricultural and Mechanical College, at Calhoun's old 
home, Fort Hill : the demand for educational reform 
Itroadened into a demand for othei' changes in State 
affairs, and he was put foi'ward by the farmers as a can- 
didate for governor in iSiK); after an exciting and heated 
canvass he received the nomination in the Democratic 
convention by a vote of 27(1 to ")() for his opponent, and 
was elected in November following : this was his first 
I)olitical office, and he was reelected in 1892 by an over- 
whelming vote: his term as governor was signalized by 
the passage of the Dispensary Law for the control of the 
licjuor traffic liy the State and by the estal)lishment of 
another college, the Winthrop Normal and Industrial Col- 
lege for \N'onien. at Kock Hill, an institution which bids 
fair to lead all similar schools in the Soutli : entered the 
race for the Senate against General Butler and the two 
canvassed the State, county l)y county, with the result 
that Tillman was elected as a Democrat by the general 
assembly by a vote of 1:!] to 21 for Butler. His term of 
service will expire March o. llJUl. 




THOMAS B. TURLEY 



THOMAS B. TURLEY 



Thomas B. Turley. of Memphis, was born in Memphis 
April 5. 1H45 ; served throiif?h tlie Civil War as a private 
in the Confederate ai'my ; was graduated from the law de- 
partment of the University of Virginia in 1867, and 
immediately began the practice of law at Memphis ; held 
no civil office until appointed to the United States Senate 
as a Democrat, July 20, 1897, to succeed Senator Isham G. 
Harris, deceased ; was elected by the legislature to fill out 
the unexpired tei'm, and sworn in February 14, 1898. His 
term of service will end March B. 1901. 




GEORGE TURNER 



GEORGE TURNER 



George Turner, ot Spokane, was born in Edina. Mo., 
February 25. 1S50; was educated in the common schools; 
is a lawyer; was United States marshal for the southern 
and middle districts of Alabama from 1S7() till ISSO; was 
associate justice of the supreme court for the Territory of 
Washington from July 4, 18H4, till February 15, IHSC: was 
a member of the constitutional convention which framed 
the constitution for the State of Washington ; was elected 
to the United States Senate as a representative of the 
People's party, composed of a fusion of Silver Republi- 
cans, Democrats, and Populists ; he took his seat March 
4, 181)7. His term of service will expire March 8, IW4. 




DAVID TURPIE 



DAVID TURPIE 



David Turpie, of Indianapolis, studied law and was 
admitted to practice at Logausport, Ind., in lS4y ; was ap- 
pointed by Cjovernor Wright, whom he succeeded in the 
Senate, judge of the court of common pleas in 1854, and 
was judge of the circuit court in 1856, both of which 
offices he resigned ; in 1858 and also in 1858 he was a 
member of the legislature of Indiana; in 1863 was elected 
a Senator in Congress for the unexpired term of Jesse I). 
Bright, and immediately succeeding Joseph A. Wright, 
who served by appointment of the governor ; was elected 
a member of the house of representatives of the general 
assembly of Indiana, and served as speaker of that body 
in 1874-75 ; in 1878 was appointed one of the three com- 
missioners to revise the laws of Indiana, serving three 
years as such ; in August, 1886, was appointed United 
States district attorney for the State of Indiana, and 
served as such until March 3, 1887; was a delegate at 
large to the national Democratic convention at St. Louis 
in June, 1888 ; was elected to the United States Senate 
as a Democrat. February 2, 1887, and took his seat March 
4, 1887; was reelected in 1893. His term of service will 
expire March 3, 1899. 




GEORGE G. VEST 



GEORGE GRAHAM VEST 



George Graham Vest, of Kansas Gity, was born at 
Frankfort, Ky., December d, 1H80: graduated at Gentre 
Gollege. Kentucky, in 1<S4>S, and in the law dejjartment oi 
Transylvania University, at Lexington. Ky., in 1858 : re- 
moved the same year to Missouri and began the practice 
of law in central Missouri : was a presidential elector on 
the Democratic ticket in l!S()(l; was a memlter of the 
Missouri house of representatives in 1860-61 ; was a mem- 
ber of the house of representatives of the Gonfederate 
congress for two years and a member of the C'onfederate 
senate for one year ; was elected to the Gnited States 
Senate as a Democrat, in the place of James Shields, 
Democrat (who had been elected to fill the vacancy caused 
by the death of Lewis V. Bogy. Democrat): took his seat 
March IS. 1S71G was reelected in iSSo. ISIIU. and 1897. His 
term of service will expire March 3, 1908. 




EDWARD C. WALTHALL 



EDWARD GARY WALTHALL 



Edward Gary Walthall, of Grenada, was born in Rich- 
mond, Va., April 4, 1831 ; received an academic education 
at Holly Springs, Miss.; studied law at Holly Springs; was 
admitted to the bar in 1852 and commenced the practice 
of law the same year in Coffeeville, Miss.; was elected in 
185(5 district attorney for the tenth judicial district of 
Mississippi and reelected in 1851) ; resigned that office in the 
spring of 1861 and entered the Confederate service as a 
lieutenant in the Fifteenth Mississippi Regiment ; was soon 
after elected lieutenant-colonel of that regiment ; in the 
spring of I8(v2 w'as elected colonel of the Twenty-Ninth 
Mississippi Regiment; was promoted to brigadier-general 
in December, 1862, and major-general in June, 1864; after 
the surrender practiced law at Coffeeville nntil January, 
1871, when he removed to (irenada and continued practice 
there until March, 1885 ; was a delegate at large to the 
national Democratic conventions in 1868. 1876, 1880, 1884, 
and 1896 ; in 1868 was one of the vice-presidents of the con- 
vention, and in 1876, 1880, 1884, and 1S96 was chairman of 
the Mississippi delegation; was appointed to the United 
States Senate as a Democrat to fill the vacancy caused by 
the resignation of L. Q. C. Lamar, appointed Secretary of 
the Interior, and took his seat March 12, 18S5; w'a,s elected 
by the legislature in January. 1886. for the unexpired 
term ; was reelected January, 1888, and again January, 
1892. Resigned in January, 1894. on account of ill health ; 
was then chairman of the committee on military affairs ; 
reentered the Senate in March, 1895, by virtue of his election 
in January, 1892. On the 21st of April, 1898, the Senator 
died in Washington, D. C. The people of Mississippi, and, 
indeed, wherever he was known, mourned his loss as that 
of a friend and a statesman. 




FRANCIS E WARREN 



FRANCIS E. WARREN 



Francis E. Warren, of Cheyeune. was l)orn in Hins- 
dale. Mass.. June 20, 1844 ; received a ccjmmon-scbool and 
academic education ; enlisted in 1S(V2 in the Forty-Ninth 
Massachusetts Regiment, and served as private and non- 
commissioned officer in that regiment till it was mustered 
out of the service : was afterwards captain in the Massa- 
chusetts militia : was engaged in farming and stock rais- 
ing in Massachusetts till early in 1>S68. when he removed 
to Wyoming (then a part of Dakota) : is at present engaged 
in mercantile, live-stock, and lighting business : was presi- 
dent of the council. Wyoming legislature, in 1878, and 
member of the council in 1884; was mayor of Cheyenne, 
and served three terms as treasurer of Wyoming ; was a 
delegate to the national Republican convention at Chicago 
in 1888 : was appointed governor of Wyoming by President 
Artlinr and removed by President Cleveland; was again 
appointed governor of Wyoming by President Harrison and 
served till the Territory was admitted as a State, when he 
was elected governor ; was elected to the United States 
Senate as a Republican. November IS, 1890 ; took his seat 
December 1, 18il(); and served until the expiration of term, 
March 3, 1898; was reelected as a Republican. January 23. 
1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901. 




GEORGE L. WELLINGTON 



GEORGE L WELLINGTON 



George L. ^\ ei.i.ixgton. of ('riinhcrland. was Ikumi of (iei"- 
man i)arentage at ('iinil)erlaii(i. Allegany County. Md.. 
January -S. 1S;V2 : attended a (ierinan srhool for a brief 
period, otiierwise self-ediicatcd ; at the age of twelve began 
worU in a canal stoic in ( 'iinibcrland ; in ls7(> was appointed 
to a clerkship in the Second National Bank of C'nnil)erland : 
later became teller ; was ai)]»ointed treasurer of Allegany 
County ill ISS'J and served until ISSS; was again appointed 
in iS'.Mt; was delegate to the national Kepublican conven- 
tions of 1.SS4 and ISSS: was nouiinated by the Republican 
party for coinptroller of Maryland in ISSII and was defeated 
after an active canvass, thougli lie received the largest vote 
ever given a candidate of his jiarty on the State ticket: 
was appointed by President Harrison assistant treasui'er 
of the United States at Baltimore in duly, 1S1)() : was nom- 
inated tVn- Congress by the Hepublican.s of the sixth con- 
gressional district in 1S'.)-J. and was defeated by W. McM. 
McKaig: was renominated in lsi)4 and elected to the Fifty- 
Fourth Congress: was elected to the I'nited States Senate 
as a Ke{)iiblicaii. and took his seat March 4. lSi)7. His term 
of service will expire March :>. ll)0;J. 




GEORGE P. WETMORE 



GEORGE PEABODY WETMORE 



George Peabody Wetmore, of Newport, was born during 
a visit of his parents abroad, at London. England. August 
2, 1846 ; was graduated from Yale College in LSG7, receiving 
the degree of A. B., and that of A. M. in 1S71 ; studied law 
at Columbia College Law School ami was graduated in 
1869. receiving the degree of LL. 13.: was admitted to the 
bar of Khode Island and of New York in 1^SG9 ; is a trustee 
of the Peabody Museum of Natural Histoi-y in Yale Uni- 
versity, and was nominated a fellow of the university in 
1S8S, but declined : is a trustee of the Peabody p]dncatioii 
Fund, and a director of other associations ; was first presi- 
dential elector of Khode Island in 1880 and in 1884 ; was 
a member of the State committee to receive the representa- 
tives of France on the occasion of their visit to Rhode 
Lsland in iSSl ; is a member of the commission to build a 
new statehouse ; was governor of Rhode Island in 1885 86, 
1886-87, and was defeated for a third term in 1887, receiving, 
however, a greater number of votes than at either of the 
two preceding elections when successful ; was defeated on 
the eighth ballot for United States Senator in 1889 ; was 
elected to the Senate to succeed Nathan F. Dixon, June 
13. 1894, receiving the unanimous vote of the general 
assembly in the senate, house, and joint assembly. His 
term of service will expire March 8, 1901. 




STEPHEN M. WHITE 



STEPHEN MALLORY WHITE 



Stephen Mallory White, of Los Angeles, was l)orii in 
San Francisco. Cal.. Jannary 19. ISoH ; was raised on a farm 
in Santa Cruz County. Cal.: was e<iucated in private anil 
(•oniiniiii schools, and at St. lgnatiu> ('ollege. in San l''i'an- 
cisco, and Santa Clara ('ollege. Santa Clara County. Cal.. 
from which latter institution he graduated in 1S71 : studied 
law and was admitted to practice l)efore the Supreme Court 
of California. .\i)ril 14. 1S74 ; in November of that year he 
commenced practicing in Los Angeles Connty. where he 
has since resided ; in 1S82 he was elected district attorney 
of his county, receiving the largest majority of anyone upon 
the Democratic ticket: in 1.S.S4 was chairman of the Demo- 
cratic State convention, and also held the same position 
during the succeeding State convention of |!SH(5 : during the 
latter year he wa.s nominated in a strong Repultlican dis- 
trict foi' the State senate and was elected for the tei'ui of 
four years, and was chosen president prt) f 0)1 pore of the 
senate during both sessions of his incumbency; in LSHS, 
upon the death of (lovernor Bartlett, the })resident of the 
senate. Lieutenant-Covernor Waterman, became governor, 
and Mr. White thereafter discharged the functions of 
lieutenant-governor: in ISSS was temporary president of 
the national Democratic convention at St. Louis, in which 
body he represented California as one of the delegates at 
large : was also a delegate at large to the national con- 
vention in ISD-J, and as a member of the notification com- 
mittee made the address to Vice-President Stevenson at 



STEPHEN MALLORY WHITE 

Madison Square Garden ; iu 1890 Mr. White was the caucus 
nominee of the Democratic members of the California leg- 
islature for the United States Senate, receiving all the 
votes of his partisans in that body. The legislature which 
convened iu lSiJ8 consisted of 59 Democrats, 51 Kepul)- 
licans, 8 Populists, 1 non-pai'tisan. and 1 Independent. 
When the joint senatorial convention of the two houses 
was held, Mr. White was elected on the first ballot, receiv- 
ing 61 votes, which represented the entire Democratic mem- 
bership, 1 non-partisan, and 1 Populist. He took his seat 
March 4. 1893. His term of service will expire March 3, 
1899. 




JOHN L. WILSON 



JOHN L. WILSON 



John L. Wilson, of Spokane, was liorn at Crawfords- 
ville. Ind.. August 7, 1850; received a primary education in 
Hie common schools ; graduated from Wal)ash College in 
1874: was elected a representative to the State legislature 
of Indiana in 1880 from Montgomerj' Countj' ; was appointed 
by President Arthur receiver of public moneys at Spokane, 
and served four years and four months; was delegate 
from the Territory of Washington to the national Repub- 
lican convention of 1884 ; was elected to the Fifty-First 
Congress as a Kepul)lican. lieing the first member of Con- 
gress elected from the State of Washington : was unan- 
imously renominated and reelected to the Fifty-Second 
and Fifty-Third Congresses, and while serving as a member 
of the Fifty-Third Congress, February 1, 1895. was elected 
to the Fnited States Senate to Hll a vacancy caused l)y 
the failure of the preceding legislature to elect a Senator, 
and took his seat in the Senate February 19, 1895. His 
term of service will expire March 8. 1S99. 




EDWARD O. WOLCOTT 



EDWARD OLIVER W'OLCOT 



Edward Oliver Wolcott. of Denver, was born in Long- 
meadow, Mass., March 'Hi. 1S4S: served for a few months 
as private in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Kegiment of 
Ohio Volunteers in IS64 •. entered Yale College in 1866. 
but did not graduate : graduated from Harvard Law School 
in 1871. and removed to Colorado ; is a lawyer; was elected 
to the United States Senate as a Eepul)lican, to succeed 
Thomas M. Bowen. Kepulilican. and took his seat March 4. 
1889; was reelected in 1895. His term of service will 
expire March 8. 1901. 



HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 




ERNEST F. ACHESON 



ERNEST F. ACHESON 



Ernest F. Acheson. of Washington, was boru in Wash- 
ington, Pa.. September li). 1S55 : was educated at Washing- 
ton and Jeii'erson College : read law and was admitted to 
the bar in l!S77: in 1S7'.) purchased the Washington Oli- 
serrer, of which he has since been editor; was elected 
president of the Pennsylvania Editorial Association in 
January 1893, and in June of the same year was chosen 
as recording secretary of the National Editorial Associa- 
tion : was for ten years a memlier of the Repuldican State 
committee ; was a delegate to the Republican national 
conventions at Chicago in 1884 and at St. Louis in 1896 ; 
was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty- 
Fifth Congre.ss as a Republican, receiving 86.554 votes, 
against 26,538 votes for Dr. John Purman, Democrat and 
Populist, and 903 votes for B. C. McGrew, Prohibitionist. 
He represents the twenty-fourth district of Pennsylvania, 
which has a population of 2SS.4S5, and which comprises 
the counties of Fayette, Greene, and Washington, all bor- 
oughs and townships lying south of the Monongahela and 
Ohio Rivers, the boroughs and townships lying between the 
Youghiogheny and Monongahela Rivers, and the borough 
of McKeesport, in the county of Allegheny. 




ROBERT ADAMS, Jr. 



ROBERT ADAMS, Jr. 



Robert Adams, Jr., was born in Philadelphia, Feb. 26, 1849. 
His father was a distinguished merchant of that city ; his 
mother was Matilda Maybin. daughter of Captain Wm. H. 
Hart, also a merchant and prominent citizen of the same 
city. He was educated at the classical institute of Eev. J. 
W. Faires. and later graduated from the University of Penn- 
sylvania in the class of 1S(>1>. During the entire course 
he ranked among the distinguished students, and won 
the prize for declamation. After graduating he traveled 
abroad for a year, and then studied law under George W. 
Biddle, Esq. His health l)ecoming impaired, he secured 
a position with the United States geological survey, 
which was starting to explore the then (1870) unknown 
region of the Yellowstone ; he represented the Hcni/il and 
EvetiiiKj Post, of New York, and Lxjiiin'r and Erening 
Tc/egrapJi, of Philadelphia, as special correspondent. In 
1872 he was admitted to the bar. and practiced until 1H77, 
when, inheriting a competence, he retired. In 1882 was 
nominated and elected to the State senate of Pennsyl- 
vania, where he served four years. During his term he 
introduced and passed the Iiills instituting the State 
board of health of Pennsylvania and the new city charter 
of the City of Philadelphia. In 1884 he returned to 
the University of Pennsylvania, and took a post-graduate 
course in the Wharton School of Economy and Finance, to 
further fit himself for his public duties. In 1889, at the 
request of the merchants of Philadelphia, New York, and 



ROBERT ADAMS. jR. 

Boston, President Harrison appointed him to the position 
of United States minister to the Empire of Brazil. Four 
months after liis arrival there the revolution broke out, 
and the Emperor, Dom Pedro, was deposed, and under 
the instructions of Secretary of State James G. Blaine he 
was the first foreign minister to acknowledge the new 
republic. In 1890 the climate so affected his health that 
he was obliged to return home and resign his i^osition. 
In 1898 he was elected to the Fifty-Third Congress for 
the second district of Pennsylvania, and since then has 
been three times reelected, each time by an increased 
majority. Since his enti-ance into Congress he has taken 
an active part in the proposed legislation before that 
body, being aj^pointed on the Committee of Foreign 
Affairs. He has l)een active in matters relating to our 
foreign policy, and. during a part of the second session of 
the Fifty-Fifth Congress, owing to the illness of the Hon. 
R. E. Hitt, he acted as chairman of the Committee of 
Foreign Affairs. During this period he reported, conducted 
through the House of Representatives, and had charge of, 
in conference with the Senate, the Cuban resolutions, and 
drafted, introduced, reported, and passed through the 
House of Representatives, in one hour, the declaration of 
war against Spain. He represents the second district of 
Pennsylvania, with a population of 131,416, and which con- 
sists of the eighth, ninth, tenth, thirteenth, fourteenth, 
and twentieth wards of Philadelphia. 




WILLIAM C. ADAMSON 



WILLIAM CHARLES ADAMSON 



William Charles Adamson, of Carrollton. was born at 
Bowdon, Ga., August 13. 1854 ; spent his youth alternately 
in working on the farm and in hauling goods and cotton 
between Atlanta and Bowdon ; took the collegiate course 
at Bowdon College, graduating with the degree of A. B. in 
1874. the degree of A.M. being conferred a few years later 
by the same institution; read law in the office of the 
Hon. Sampson W. Harris ; was admitted to the bar October, 
1876. and has lived in Carrollton. Ca., ever since, practicing 
law in the circuit and supreme courts of the State, and 
the federal courts; was judge of the city court of Carroll- 
ton from 1885 to 1889, and was attorney for the city of 
Carrollton for a number of }ears; was presidential elector 
in 1892 ; had never held nor sought any other office until 
elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiv- 
ing 8.519 votes, against 4.804 votes for Alonzo H. Freeman, 
Republican. He represents the fourth district of Georgia, 
having a population of 166.121. and which consists of the 
counties of Carroll. Chattahoochee. Coweta. Harris, Heard, 
Marion. Meriwether, Muscogee, Talbot, and Troup (ten 
counties). 




WILLIAM F. ALDRICH 



WILLIAM F. ALDRICH 



William F. Aldrich, of Aldrich, was born at Palmyra, 
Wayne County, N. Y.. March 11, 1858; was educated at the 
public school of his native village until 1865, when he 
removed with his father to New York City, in which city 
and vicinity he attended several schools, and was graduated 
from Warren's Military Academy, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. 
taking a course in civil engineering ; removed to Alabama 
in 1874, and engaged in mining and manufacturing, and 
built up the town that now Ijears his name : was elected 
to the Fifty-Fourth Congress by the combined vote of the 
Republicans and Populists of the fourth district, against 
Gaston A. Eobbins. Democrat. The latter received the cer- 
tificate of election from the governor on the face of the 
returns. Mr. Aldrich instituted a contest, and was seated 
by the House March lo, 1896 ; was again elected by the 
Republicans and the People's party in 1896 to the Fifty- 
Fifth Congress, defeating Thomas S. Plowman, Democrat, 
who, however, received the certificate of election. Mr. Al- 
drich again contested, and was seated by the House on 
Wednesday. February 9, 189S. He represents the fourth 
district of Alabama, with a population of 161.184. which 
includes the counties of Calhoun, Chilton, Cleburne, Dallas, 
Shelby, and Talladega (six counties). 




DE ALVA STANWOOD ALEXANDER 



DE ALVA STANWOOD ALEXANDER 



De Alva Stanwood Alexander, of Buffalo, was born 
July 17, 1846, in Richmond, Me.; at the age of fifteen en- 
tered the army, serving three years, and until the close of 
the war. as a private soldier ; upon leaving the service 
prepared for college at Edward Little Institute, in Auburn, 
Me., and took his bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College 
in 1870 ; afterwards located at Indianapolis. Ind., where he 
studied law and practiced in partnership with Hon. Stan- 
ton J. Peelle, now judge of the court of claims in Wash- 
ington ; in 1881 was appointed fifth auditor of the Treasury 
Department, and during his residence in Washington was 
elected and served one term as commander of the Depart- 
ment of the Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic; on 
leaving Washington, removed to Buffalo, forming a law 
partnership with his college classmate, Hon. James A. 
Roberts, at present comptroller of the State of New York ; 
in 1889 was appointed United States attorney for the 
northern district of New York, holding the oflBce until 
December. 1893 ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress 
as a Republican, receiving 27,573 votes, against 14,636 votes 
for Hai-vey W. Richardson, Democrat. 931 votes for George 
Wing. National Democrat, 425 votes for John A. Sayles, 
Prohibitionist, and 204 votes for August Miller, Socialist 
Labor. He represents the thirty-thii-d district of New 
York, with a population of 158.531, which consists of a 
part of Erie County, and embracing the fifteenth, six- 
teenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, twenty-first, twenty-second, 
twenty-third, twenty-fourth, and twenty-fifth wards of the 
city of Buffalo, and fourth and fifth assembly districts of 
the county of Erie. 




JOHN M. ALLEN 



JOHN M. ALLEN 



John M. Allen, of Tupelo, was born iu Tishuniingo 
County, Miss., July 8, 1847 ; received a common-school 
education up to his enlistment as a private in the Con- 
federate army, in which he served through the war ; after 
the cessation of hostilities attended the law school at the 
Cumberland University, in Lebanon, Tenn., and graduated 
in law in the year 1870 at the University of Mississippi ; 
commenced the practice of his profession at Tupelo, Lee 
County, Miss., in 1870 ; in 1875 was elected district attorney 
for the first judicial district of Mississippi ; served a term 
of four years and retired from that office ; was elected 
to the Forty-Ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-First, Fifty-Second, Fifty- 
Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the 
Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 7,321 votes, 
again.st 335 votes for W. H. McGill. Republican, and 742 
votes for A. W. Kearney, Populist. He represents the first 
district of Mississippi, which has a population of 143,315, 
and embraces the counties of Alcon, Alcorn. Itawamba, Lee, 
Lowndes, Monroe, Oktibbeha, Prentiss, and Tishomingo. 




WILLIAM C. ARNOLD 



WILLIAM CARLILE ARNOLD 



William Carlile Arnold of Du Bois, was born in 
Luthersburg. Cleartield County, Pa., July 15, 1851 ; was 
educated in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts ; was admitted 
to the bar in 1875 and has practiced law continuously since 
his admission ; had never held any public office before 
his election to the Fifty-Fourth Congress ; was reelected 
to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 
19,295 votes, against 18.090 votes for Jackson L. Spangler, 
Democrat, and 1.035 votes for John Brennan, Prohibitionist. 
He represents the twenty-eighth district of Pennsylvania, 
which has a population of 180.357, and which embraces 
the counties of Center, Clarion, Clearfield, Elk, and Forest 
(five counties in all). 




JOSEPH W. BABCOCK 



JOSEPH WEEKS BABCOCK 



Joseph Weeks Babcock. of Necedab. was born in Swan- 
ton, Vt.. March 6. 1S')0 ; removed with his parents to Iowa 
in 1855 ; attended school at Mount Vernon and Cedar Falls ; 
removed from Iowa in ISSl and settled in Necedab. where 
he has since resided, being engaged in the manufacture of 
lumber; was elected to the Wisconsin assembly in ISSS and 
reelected in 1S*.K); was elected chairman of the national 
Republican congressional committee in 1894, and reelected 
in 189(5; was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth 
Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a 
Eepublican, receiving 26.691 votes, against 15,168 votes for 
A. J. Davis, Fusion Democrat. He represents the third 
district of Wisconsin, which has a population of 173,572. and 
which embraces eight counties, Adams. Crawford, Grant, 
Iowa. Juneau, Richland, Sauk, and Vernon. 




JOSEPH W. BAILEY 



JOSEPH W. BAILEY 



Joseph W. Bailey, of Gainesville, was boru in Copiah 
County. Miss., October 6, 1863 ; was admitted to the bar in 
1883 ; served as a district elector on the Cleveland and 
Hendricks ticket in 1884 ; removed to Texas in 18S5 and 
located at his present home ; served as elector- for the State 
at large on the Democratic ticket in 1888: was elected to 
the Fifty-Second. Fifty-Third, Fifty-Fourth, and was re- 
elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 
28,436 votes, against 13,229 votes for W. D. Gordon, Populist, 
and 4.728 votes for R. C. Foster, National Democrat. He 
represents the fifth congressional district of Texas, which 
has a population of 199.477. and which embraces the six 
counties of Collin, Cooke, Denton, Fannin, Grayson, and 
Montague. 




SAMUEL T. BAIRD 



SAMUEL T. BAIRD 



Samuel T. Baird. of Bastrop, was born May 5, 1861. at 
Oak Ridge. La.; was educated at home and at Vincennes, 
Ind.; began the study of lavf in 1871). and was admitted to 
the bar in 188'2 ; was elected district attorney of the sixth 
judicial district in 1884 ; served four years in that position, 
and was elected district judge of the same district in 1888; 
after serving four years upon the bench, resumed practice 
of law ; was elected to the State senate in April 189(5, and 
served as chairman of the committee on railroads and as 
a member of judiciary, lands and levees, and elections com- 
mittees ; was chairman of joint Democratic caucus during 
session of general assemljly ; was temporary chairman of 
Democratic State convention in June, 1896 ; was a delegate 
to the national Democratic convention at Chicago. 1896, 
and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, 
receiving 11.494 votes, against 4.870 votes for A. Benoit, 
Populist. He represents the fifth district of Louisiana, 
which has a population of 194.302. embracing the parishes 
of Caldwell, Catahoula. Claiborne, Concordia, East Carroll, 
Franklin, Jackson. Lincoln, Madison. Morehouse, Ouachita, 
Richland, Tensas, West Carroll, and Union. 




JEHU BAKER 



JEHU BAKER 



Jehu Baker, of Belleville, was born November 4. 1S22. 
in Faj'ette Countj% K,y.; attended common schools and 
McKeudree College, but did not graduate ; subsequently 
received from the latter institution the honorary degrees 
of M. A. and LL. D.; studied medicine for a time; is a 
lawyer ; was master in chancery of St. Clair County 1861-65; 
was elected to the Thirty-Ninth, Fortieth, and Fiftieth Con- 
gresses ; served as United States minister resident to Vene- 
zuela 1878-81 and 1882-85 ; was minister resident and 
consul-general for a time during the closing i^art of this 
service ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Fusion- 
ist. having been nominated by the People's party and also 
by the Democratic party, receiving 23,581 votes, against 
23,179 votes for Everett J. Murphy. Republican. He repre- 
sents the twenty-first district of Illinois, which has a 
population of 183.111, and which eml)races the seven coun- 
ties of Clinton. Marion, Monroe, Randolph, Perry, St. Clair, 
and Washington. 




WILLIAM B. BAKER 



WILLIAM B. BAKER 



William B. Baker, of Aberdeen, was born near Aljer- 
deen, Md., July 22, IS-tO ; was educated at public and private 
schools ; worked upon a farm until thirty-two years of age. 
when he commenced fruit packing, and has been engaged 
in that business ever since ; has frequently been a delegate 
to State and congressional conventions, and. although his 
county (Harford) is strongly Democratic, he was elected to 
the house of delegates as a Republican in 18S1 and to the 
State senate in 1.S93 ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and 
reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congi-ess as a Repul:)lican. re- 
ceiving 28,530 votes, against 23,108 votes for George M. 
Jewett, Democrat. He represents the second district of 
Maryland, having a population of 208. 1(55, and which em- 
braces the twentieth, twenty-first, and twenty-second wards 
and ninth precinct of the eleventh ward of the city of 
Baltimore. Counties. — Second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, 
seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth districts 
of Baltimore County, Carroll, Cecil, and Harford. 




THOMAS H. BALL 



THOMAS H. BALL 



Thomas H. Ball, of Huntsville, was born January 14, 
1859. at Huntsville, Walker County, Tex., where he now 
resides ; was educated in private schools and Austin Col- 
lege, in his native town ; afterwards obtained practical 
business training upon a farm and in the mercantile busi- 
ness ; served three terms as mayor of Huntsville, and 
retired to begin the practice of law ; attended lectures at 
the University of Virginia and was elected president of 
the law class ; honored l)y his party with many honorary 
positions ; has never been a candidate until the election of 
l!S*)(5, when he was nominated by acclamation by the Dem- 
ocratic convention and elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress 
as a Democrat, receiving 19,161 votes, against 15.189 votes 
for J. H. Eagle. Populist, and 158 votes for A. C. Tompkins, 
Republican. He represents the first district of Texas, 
which has a population of 1(12.827, and which comprises 
the ten counties of Chambers. Freestone. Grimes. Harris, 
Leon, Madison, Montgomery, Trinity, Walker, and Waller. 




JOHN H. BANKHEAD 



JOHN H. BANKHEAD 



John H. Bankhead, of Fayette, was born in Moscow, 
Marion County (now Lamar), Ala., September 13, 1842; was 
self-educated ; is a farmer ; served four years in the Con- 
federate army, being wounded three times ; repi'esented 
Marion County in the general assembly, sessions of iSfio. 
1866, and 1867 ; was a member of the State senate 1876-77. 
and of the house of representatives 1880-81 ; was warden of 
the Alabama penitentiary from 1881 till 1S85 ; was elected to 
the Fiftieth. Fifty-First. Fifty-Second. Fifty-Third, and 
Fifty-Fourth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth 
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 10,148 votes, against 4.985 
votes for A. S. ^'andegraff. National Democrat, and 8.295 
votes for G. S. Youngblood. Populist. He represents the 
sixth district of Alabama, which has a population of 15S.S88. 
and comprises the eight counties of Fayette, Greene, Lamar, 
Marion. Pickens. Sumter. Tuscaloosa, and Walker. 




ISAAC A. BARBER 



ISAAC AMBROSE BARBER 



Isaac Ambrose Barber, of Easton, was Iioru neax' Salem, 
N. J.. January 26, 1852 ; studied medicine on nearing man- 
hood, and graduated in 1872 ; practiced for a short period 
in Woodstown, N. J.; removed to Easton, Talbot County, 
Md., in 1878 ; practiced medicine successfully for about 
hfteen years, since which time he has been engaged in 
milling ; was elected to the Maryland legislature in 1895 : 
is chairman of the Republican State central committee 
for Talbot County ; is president of the Farmers and Mer- 
chants' National Bank of Easton ; was elected to the Fifty- 
Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 17,969 votes, 
against 17,394 votes for Joshua W. Miles. Democrat, and 
1.724 votes for T. Pliny Fisher, Prohibitionist. He repre- 
sents the first district of Maryland, which has a population 
of 158,246, and which embraces the eight counties of Caro- 
line, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne. Somerset, Talbot, 
Wicomico, and Worcester. 




JOHN A. BARHAM 



JOHN A. BARHAM 



John A. Barham, of Santa Rosa, was l)orn in Missouri 
July 17, 1844 ; removed with his parents to California in 
1849 ; was educated in the common schools and at the 
Hesi^erian College, in Woodland, Cal.; taught in the pul^lic 
schools of California for three years; studied law and was 
admitted to practice in 18(58, and has practiced his profes- 
sion since ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth, and reelected 
to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 
17,828 votes, against 16,328 votes for Fletcher A. Cutler, 
Democrat, 1.4'.)7 votes for George W. Montieth. People's 
party, and 241) votes for B. F. Taylor, Prohibitionist. He 
represents the first district of California, which has a 
population of 163,087, and embraces the fourteen counties 
of Del Norte, Humboldt, Lassen. Marin, Mendocino, Modoc, 
Napa. Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Sonoma, Tehama, 
and Trinity. 




CHARLES A. BARLOW 



CHARLES AVERILL BARLOW 



Charles Averill Barlow, of San Luis Obispo, eldest 
son of Merrill Barlow, who was quartermaster-general of 
Ohio in 186:2, under Governor Brough, was born in Cleve- 
land, Ohio, March 17. 1S5S, and received a common-school 
education in that city : his father having died. he. with 
his mother and family, removed to \'entura, CaL, in LST') ; 
he then learned the harness-maker's trade, later buying 
an interest in the business of his employer; he also engaged 
extensively in the fruit-drying and shipping business ; 
disposing of his interests in Ventura, he removed to San 
Luis Obispo County, where he acquired land and engaged 
in wheat farming; he was State lecturer of the Farmers' 
Alliance one term, and was elected to the State assembly 
from San Luis Obispo County in IHSVi on the straight 
People's party ticket; he introduced a number of inipur- 
portant bills in the legislature and conducted them to a 
successful passage ; he then engaged with J. K. Tuley in 
the publication of the h'cdsdncr at San Luis Obispo, that 
being the leading Pojjulist paper in southern California ; 
he was chairman of the People's party State convention 
in 1896, and in August of that year was nominated for 
Congress liy both the People's party and Democratic con- 
ventions and the unanimous indorsement of the Free-Silver 
Republican organization of the sixth district, and was 
elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Fusion candidate, 
receiving 24,157 votes, against 2o.494 votes for James Mc- 
Lachlau, Gold Republican. 1.196 for H. Clay Needham. 
Prohibitionist, and 542 for .lob Hai-riman. Socialist. He 
represents the sixth district of California, which has a 
population of 165.01S, and which embraces the six counties 
of Los Angeles. Monterey, San Luis Oltispo, Santa Barbara, 
Santa Cruz, and Ventura. 









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SAMUEL S. BARNEY 



SAMUEL S. BARNEY 



Samuel S. Barney, of West Bend, was born in Hart- 
ford, Washington County, Wis., January 81, 1S46; was edu- 
cated in the public schools and at Lombard LTuiversity. 
Galesburg. 111. ; taught the high school in Hartford for 
four years; began the study of law at ^V'est Bend with 
Hon. L. F. Frisby, late attorney-general of Wisconsin, in 
1870 ; was admitted to practice in 1878, and has practiced 
his profession at West Bend ever since ; filled the office 
of superintendent of schools of Washington County from 
187G to 1880 ; was the Republican candidate for Congress 
in 1884 in the old fifth district against General Bragg; 
in the same year was a delegate to tlie national Republi- 
can convention at Chicago ; has hekl no other pul)lic 
office ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to 
the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Repul)lican, receiving 26,613 
votes, against 16,493 votes for Cxeorge W. Winans, Demo- 
crat, and 557 votes for Henry W. Mensing, Socialist Lalior. 
He represents the fifth district of Wisconsin, having a 
population of about 167,000, and embracing the tenth and 
thirteenth wards of Milwaukee, the towns of Granville. 
Milwaukee, and Wauwatosa, in Milwaukee County, and 
the counties of Ozaukee. Sheboygan, Washington, and 
Waukesha. 




WILLIAM E. BARRETT 



WILLIAM E. BARRETT 



William E. Barrett, of Melro.se. was born there De- 
cember 29, 185S ; was educated at the public schools ; 
graduated at Dartmouth College in ISSO; began at once 
as assistant editor of the St. Albans Daily Messenger; 
joined the staff of the Boston Daily Advertiser in LSS2 ; 
was Washington correspondent of the Boston Advertiser 
1882-86 ; was recalled to Boston to become editor-in-chief 
and in 1888 became chief proprietor and manager of the 
Boston Daily Advertiser and the Boston Evening Record ; 
was elected to the Massachusetts legislature in 1887, 1888, 
1889, 1890. 1891, and 1892; was speaker of that body 
every year but the first, being elected by the votes of 
both parties ; was a candidate for Congress in April, 1893, 
at a special election to Hll the vacancy caused by the 
resignation of Hon. H. C. Lodge, but was defeated by 
William Everett, Democrat ; was elected to the Fifty- 
Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Re- 
publican, receiving 22.759 votes, against 10,609 votes for 
P. J. Doherty. Democrat. Ife represents the seventh dis- 
trict of Massachusetts, which has a population of 174,866, 
and comprises: E.ssex County — city of Lynn and towns of 
Nahant and Saugus; Middlesex county — cities of Everett 
and Maiden, and towns of Melrose. Stoneham, and Wake- 
field; Suffolk County — fourth and fifth wards of the city 
of Boston, the city of Chelsea, and town of Revere. 




SAMUEL J. BARROWS 



SAMUEL JUNE BARROWS 



Samuel June Bakrows, of Boston, was born iu New York 
City May 26, 1S45 ; after a primary school education he 
entered, at nine years, the employ of K. Hoe »!»: Co.. New York, 
as errand boy and telegraph operator ; with the exception of 
one year spent at the pulilic schools, he remained nine 
years with this firm : studied at night school ; learned 
shorthand ; enlisted in the navy at nineteen, but was not 
mustered in on account of ill health ; practiced as a stenog- 
rajjher ; was reporter for the New York San and New 
York World ; in 1S()7 became phonographic secretary to 
William H. Seward, then Secretary of State ; remained in 
Department of State until 1871, and served part of the 
time in the Consular Bureau and Bureau of Rolls ; accom- 
panied Chaplain Newman, of the Senate, to Utah, in 1S7(I, 
and reported the debate with the jMormons ; entered the 
Harvard Divinity School in the fall of 1S71, and was gradu- 
ated with the degree of B. A. ; while at Harvard was 
Boston correspondent of the New York TrilniHc; accom- 
panied, as correspondent of the same i)aper, the Yellowstone 
exiJedition in 1S73, under the command of (ieneral Stanley, 
and the Black Hills expedition in 1S74. commanded by 
General Custer ; took part in lS7::i, in the liattles of Tongue 
River and the Big Horn ; spent a year at Leipsic University 
and studied political economy under Roscher ; was settled as 
pastor of the First Parish, Dorchester (Boston), Mass., in 
1876; resigned in 1881 to become editor o'i the ('In'istimi 
Eegister, which position he held for sixteen years ; spent 
the year 1892-98 in Europe studying archieology in Greece 



SAMUEL JUXE BARROWS 

and visiting European prisons ; was secretary of the United 
States delegation to the International Prison Congress at 
Paris in 1895, and prepared the report transmitted by the 
Secretary of State to Congress ; was appointed by Presi- 
dent Cleveland in 181)6 to represent the United States on 
the International Prison Commission ; has been for fourteen 
years chaplain of the Fifth Eegimeut Massachusetts Militia ; 
was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, 
receiving 17,747 votes, against 14. •201) votes for Boardman 
Hall, Democrat, 2,612 votes for W. L. Chase. Independent 
Republican, and five votes scattering. He represents the 
tenth district of Massachusetts, which has a population 
of 174,008, and which embraces the city of Quincy, the 
town of Milton, and the twelfth, fourteenth, fifteenth, 
sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, 
and twenty-fourth wards of the city of Boston. 




RICHARD BARTHOLDT 



RICHARD BARTHOLDT 



Richard Bartholdt. of St. Louis, was born in Germany, 
November 2, 1853 ; came to this countrj^ when a boy ; 
received a classical education ; learned the printing trade 
and has remained a newspaper man ever since ; was con- 
nected with several Eastern papers as reporter, legislative 
correspondent, and editor, and was at the time of his 
election to Congress editor-in-chief of the St. Louis Tiihiow; 
was elected to the board of pulilic schools of St. Louis, and 
in November, 1891, was chosen its president; was elected 
to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected 
to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 25.513 
votes, against 9,060 votes for Charles A. Lemp. Democrat, 
and 296 votes for Carl Meier, Socialist Labor. He represents 
the tenth district of Missouri, which has a population of 
172.447, and embraces the counties of St. Louis. Franklin, 
and part of the city of St. Louis, embracing the hfth, 
seventh, ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth wards, and four 
precincts of the twenty-third ward. 




CHARLES L. BARTLETT 



CHARLES LAFAYETTE BARTLETT 



Charles Lafayette Bartlett. of Macon, was born at 
Monticello. Jasper County, Ga., on January oL 1858 ; 
removed from Monticello to Macon. Ga.. in LS75, and has 
resided in Macon since then : was educated in the schools at 
]\[onticello. the ITniversity of Georgia, and the University of 
Virginia ; graduated at the University of Georgia in August, 
1S7() ; studied law at the University of Virginia and was 
admitted to the bar in August. 1872 ; was appointed solicitor- 
general (prosecuting attorney) for the Macon judicial court 
January 31, 1877, and served in that capacity until January 
31, 1881 ; was elected to the house of representatives of 
Georgia in 1S8'2 and 1888. and again in 1SS4 and 1SS5, and 
to the State senate in 18sy, from the twenty-.second sena- 
torial district; was elected judge of the superior court of 
the Macon circuit January 1. 1898, and resigned that office 
May 1, 1894 ; was nominated l)y the Democrats as a candi- 
date for Congress, and was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and 
reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiv- 
ing 8,236 votes, against 4.696 votes for Murphy. Populist. 
He represents the sixth district of Georgia, which has a 
population of 165,942. and embraces the ten counties of 
Baldwin, Bibb, Butts. Fayette, Henry, Jones, Monroe, Pike, 
Spalding, and Upson. 




CLIFTON B. BEACH 



CLIFTON BAILEY BEACH 



Clifton Bailey Beach, of Cleveland, was born in Sharon, 
Medina County, Ohio, September 16. 1H45 ; removed to Cleve- 
land in 1S57. where he has since resided ; was educated in 
the common schools and Western Keserve College, class of 
1871 ; was admitted to the bar in LS72 ; retired from active 
practice in 1884, having become extensively engaged in 
manufacturing enterprises ; was nominated for Congress by 
acclamation and elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected 
to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 24,531 
votes, against 21.884 votes for A. F. Van Tassel, Democrat, 
76 votes for W. H. Watkins, National Democrat. 253 votes 
for J. J. Harrison, Prohibitionist, and 237 votes for Paul 
Dinger, Socialist Labor. Mr. Beach represents the twentieth 
district of Ohio, which has a population of about 177,240, 
and embraces the counties of Lake, Medina, and the town- 
ships of Bedford. Brecksville. Brooklyn, Chagrin Falls. Dover. 
East Cleveland. Euclid. Independence, Mayfield. Middleburg, 
Newburg. Olmstead. Orange, Parma, Rockport. Royalton, 
Solon, Strongsville. and Warrensville, of Cuyahoga County, 
and the twenty-sixth, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, thir- 
tieth, thirty-first, thirty-second, thirty-third, thirty-fourth, 
thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth, thirty- 
ninth, and fortieth wards of the city of Cleveland as they 
are now constituted. 




JAMES J. BELDEN 



JAMES JEROME BELDEN 



James Jerome Belden, of Syracuse, was born in Fabius, 
Onondaga County. N. Y.. September 80. 1825 : his ancestors, 
paternal and maternal, were Puritans ; is a direct descend- 
ant of Richard Bayldon. of Enghmd. who settled in Wethers- 
tield. Conn., in KiolJ. and whose descendants number among 
their members distinguished men of the colonial and Kevo- 
lutionary period, both in civil and military life ; is a charter 
member of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of 
America, and has been elected councilor-general by the 
societies of New York. New Jersey, and Connecticut; has 
been extensively engaged in business pursuits for forty 
years, having been largely interested in and director of 
several national banks ; is president and principal owner 
of the lioliert (iere Bank of Syracuse, which he founded. 
and has been trustee of the Syracuse University since it 
was founded ; was elected mayor of Syracuse in 1877, and 
reelected in 187.S without opposition ; was a delegate to the 
Repul)lican national convention at Chicago in 1880; was 
elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth. Fifty-First. Fifty- 
Second, and Fifty-Third Congresses ; declined the nomina- 
tion for the Fifty-Fourth and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth 
Congress, receiving ■27.4'27 votes, against 22.6-)7 votes for T. 
L. Poole, Republican, 638 votes for Herman I). Fulton. Pro- 
hibitionist. 827 votes for Charles H. Corregan, Socialist Labor, 
and 1,006 votes blank and scattering. He represents the 
twenty-seventh district of New York, which has a popu- 
lation of 189,139, and comprises the two counties of Madison 
and Onondaga. 




JOSEPH M. BELFORD 



JOSEPH McCRUM BELFORD 



Joseph McCrum Belford. of Riverhead, Suffolk County, 
N. Y.. was born at Mifflintown, Juniata County. Pa,. August 
5. 1852; received a classical education, graduating from 
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1871 ; engaged in 
academic work for some years ; removed to Long Island 
in 1884 ; was admitted to the bar in 1889, and was elected 
to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 
27,191 votes, against 15,928 votes for William D. Marvel, 
Bryan Democrat. 1,700 votes for William A. Hazard, Na- 
tional Democrat, and 929 votes for Joseph P. Jones, 
Socialist. Mr. Belford represents the first congressional 
district of New York, which has a population of about 
190,550, and embraces the two counties of Queens and 
Suffolk. 




HUGH R. BELKNAP 



HUGH REID BELKNAP 



Hugh Reid Belknap, of Chicago, was l)()iii in Keokuk, 
Iowa, September 1, 1860. He attended the public schools 
there, and also took a course of instruction at the Adams 
Academy, Quincy, Mass.. completing his education at 
Phillips Academy, at Andover, Mass.; being unable to take 
a collegiate course, at the age of eighteen he entered the 
service of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company in a 
minor capacity; remained with that company for twelve 
years, filling various positions in practical railroading in 
the operating department, and retired as chief clerk to 
the general manager, in 1S92. to ])ecome superintendent 
of the South Side Rapid Transit Railroad, of Chicago — 
the first elevated railroad in that city ; was elected to 
the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress 
as a Republican, receiving '22,075 votes, against 21.4S5 
votes for Clarence S. Darrow, Democrat and People's party, 
255 votes for John Krebs, Independent Gold Standard 
Democrat, 182 votes for Solomon I). Ebersoll, Prohibitionist. 
109 votes for Michael L. Morris, Socialist LaJjor, and 
21 votes for John J. Fanning, Middle of the Road. ]\lr. 
Belknap represents the third district of Illinois, which 
has a population of :!07,".)72. and embraces part of Cook 
C'Ounty and that part of the fourth ward west of the 
center line of Wentworth Avenue and all of the first, 
second, fifth, sixth, and seventh wards of the city of 
Chicago. 




JOHN C. BELL 



JOHN C. BELL 



John C. Bell, of Montrose, was lioni in (iruudy Coiuity, 
Tenn., December 11, 1S51 : attended the public schools of 
bis native countj^ in early youth, and further pursued his 
studies for two years at Alto and two years at Boiling 
Fork. Franklin County, Tenn.; read law in Winchester, 
Tenn.; was admitted to the bar of that State in 1S74, and 
the same year moved to Colorado and commenced the 
practice of law at Saguache in June. 187-1 ; was appointed 
county attorney of Saguache County and served until May, 
1S76, when he resigned and removed to Lake City, Colo., 
then the most thriving city in the great San Juan mining 
region ; was elected county clerk of Hinsdale County in 
1878, but did not perform the duties personally ; was twice 
elected mayor of Lake City, and in August. 1885, resigned 
that position, and, forming a law partnership with Hon. 
Frank C. Cloudy, removed to Montrose, where he has since 
resided; in November, 1888, was elected judge of the 
seventh judicial district of Colorado for a period of six 
years; in the fall of 1S'.)2 was nominated for Congress 
from the second district of Colorado, first by the Popu- 
lists and afterwards by the Democratic convention ; was 
elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and 
reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Fusionist, re- 
ceiving 84.018 votes, against 14,385 votes for J. R. Hoff- 
mire. Republican. He represents the second district of 
Colorado, which has a population of 207,539. and which 
embraces the forty-three counties of Archuleta, Baca, Bent, 
Chaffee, Cheyenne, Clear Creek, Conejos. 'Costilla, Custer, 
Delta, Dolores, Douglas, P]agle. Elbert. El Paso, Fremont, 
Garfield, Gilpin, Grand, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Huerfano, Ki- 
owa, Kit Carson, La Plata, Las Animas, Lincoln, Mesa, Min- 
eral, Montezuma, Montrose. Otero. Ouray. Pitkin, Prowers. 
Pueblo, Rio Blanco, Rio Grande, Routt. Saguache, San Juan. 
San Miguel, and Summit. 



GEORGE JACOB BENNER 



George Jacob Benner, of Gettysburg, was born April 
13, 1859. at Gettysburg ; was educated at Pennsylvania Col- 
lege, Gettysburg, graduating in the class of 1878 ; after 
several years devoted to teaching, was admitted a member 
of the Adams County bar December 31, 1881, since which 
date has followed the practice of the law : was elected to 
the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 22.160 
votes, against 21,382 votes for Frank E. Hollar, Eepubli- 
can, 529 votes for William H. Albright. Prohiliitionist, 498 
votes for Charles A. Hawkins, Gold Democrat, and three 
votes for James A. Stable, not a regular nominee. He 
represents the nineteenth district of Pennsylvania, which 
has a population of 180.246, and which embraces the 
counties of Adams. Cumberland, and York, — three counties 
in all. 





CHARLES G. BENNETT 



CHARLES GOODWIN BENNETT 



Charles Goodwin Bennett, of Brooklyn, was born iu 
the city of Brooklyn. December 11. 1S63, where he has 
always resided: is a member of the law firm of Daniels 
& Bennett, of New York City ; was the unsuccessful Re- 
publican candidate for member of the Fifty-Third Con- 
gress ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to 
the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Eepulilican, receiving 22,605 
votes, against 14.lS(i votes for Thomas S. Delaney, the 
Democratic organization candidate, and 805 votes for 
Joseph S. Van Wyck. National Democrat. He represents 
the fifth district of New York, which has a population 
of lGl,o()2. and embraces the territory comprised in the 
present eighteenth, nineteenth, tweuty-tirst. twenty-seventh, 
and twenty-eighth wards of the city of Brooklyn. 




M/ECENAS E. BENTON 



M/ECENAS E. BENTON 



MAECENAS E. Benton, of Neosho, was l)oni in Obion 
County, Tenn.. January 29. 1849. but was brought up in 
Dyer County, in that State : received his literary education 
in two West Tennessee academies and in St. Louis Uni- 
versity; was graduated from the law department of Cum- 
berland University in June. 1S70, and immediately removed 
to Missouri, settling in Neosho, where he has since lived : 
beginning with 1S7"2 (with three exceptions) has been a dele- 
gate to every Democratic State convention held in Missouri, 
and was president of the conventions held in 1890 and lS9(i ; 
was elected prosecuting attorney in 187S and in 1880. and 
declined reelection in 18.S-J ; was attorney of the United 
States from ^larch. 1885. to July. 1.SS9 : is the original 
"offensive partisan" who was charged with "pernicious 
activity " in politics : has served as a member of the Dem- 
ocratic State ct)mmittee for the State at large ; was a 
delegate to the national Democratic convention held in 
Chicago in July, 189f), and was a memlier of the committee 
on credentials in that body : was elected to the Fifty-Fifth 
Congress as a Democrat, receiving "25, 502 votes, against 
17,900 votes for Judge C. fl. Burton, Republican. 2.010 votes 
for Hon. George Frank. Populist, and 828 votes for Rev. J. 
A. Mitchell. Prohibitionist. He represents the fifteenth 
congressional district of Missouri, which has a population of 
183,071, and emln-aces the seven counties of Barry. Barton, 
Jasper. Lawrence. McDonald. Newton, and Vernon. 




ALBERT S. BERRY 



ALBERT SEATON BERRY 



Albert Seaton Berry, of Newport, was born in Camp- 
bell County, Ky.; educated at Miami University, Oxford, 
Ohio ; attended Cincinnati Law School ; served two terms 
in the State senate and five terms as mayor of Newport; 
was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Con- 
gresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a 
Democrat, receiving 2L177 votes, against 17,422 votes for 
P. P. Ernst. Republican. He represents the sixth con- 
gressional district of Kentucky, which has a population of 
160.649. and embraces the eight counties of Boone, Camp- 
bell, Carroll. Gallatin. Grant, Kenton, Pendleton, and 
Trimble. 




HENRY H. BINGHAM 



HENRY H. BINGHAM 



Henry H. Bingham, of Philadelphia, was born in Phil- 
adelphia. Pa.. December 4. 1841 ; was graduated at Jefferson 
College in LS()"2 ; studied law : entered the Union army as 
a lieutenant in the One Hundred and Fortieth Pennsylvania 
Volunteers; was wounded at Gettysburg. Pa., in 1863, at 
Spottsylvania. Ya.. in 1864. and at Farmville, Va., in 1865; 
mustered out of service July. 1866. as brevet brigadier- 
general of volunteers ; was appointed postmaster of Phila- 
delphia in ]\larch, 1867. and resigned December. 1872, to 
accept the clerkship of the courts of oyer and terminer 
and quarter sessions of the peace at Philadelphia, having 
been elected by the people ; was reelected clerk of courts 
in 1875 ; was delegate at large to the Republican national 
convention in Philadelphia in 1872, also delegate from the 
first congressicmal district to the Republican national 
convention at Cincinnati in 1876, at Chicago in 1884 and 
1888, at Minneapolis in 1892. and at St. Louis in 1896 ; 
was elected to the Forty-Sixth. Forty-Seventh. Forty-Eighth, 
Forty-Ninth. Fiftieth. Fifty-First. Fifty-Second. Fifty-Third, 
and Fifty-Fourth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty- 
Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 32.466 votes, 
against 13,962 votes for Horace E. James. Democrat, and 
150 votes for J. Lewis Jenkins, Prohibitionist. He repre- 
sents the first district of Pennsylvania, which has a 
population of 20S.376, and comprises the first, second, 
seventh, twenty-sixth, thirtieth, and thirty-sixth wards of 
Philadelphia. 




ROSWELL P. BISHOP 



ROSWELL P. BISHOP 



RoswELL P. Bishop, of Ludington, wa.s born at Sidney, 
Delaware County, N. Y., January 6, 1843 ; worked on a farm 
until August 3, 1861, when he enlisted as a private in Com- 
pany C, Forty-Third New York Volunteer Infantry ; April 
28, 1862, he was wounded at Lees Mills, Va.. necessitating 
the amputation of his right arm ; was discharged in the 
field near Fredericksburg, Va., December, 1862 ; subse- 
quently attended school at Unadilla^ Academy, Cooperstown 
Seminary, and Walton Academy. New York ; taught school 
several years, and entered Michigan University in Septem- 
ber, 1868, where he remained until December, 1872; was 
admitted to the bar in May, 1875, at Ann Arbor; commenced 
practicing law at Ludington. Mich., soon after, where he 
has since resided ; was elected prosecuting attorney of 
Mason County. 1876, 1878, and 1884; was elected to the 
]\lichigan legislature, 18S2 and 1S92; was elected to the 
Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a 
Republican, receiving 20,418 votes, against 14,243 votes for 
A. F. Tibbetts, Fusionist, and 389 votes for J. G. Rogers, 
Prohibitionist. He represents the ninth district of Michi- 
gan, which has a population of 14.S,626, and embraces the 
ten counties of Benzie, Lake, Leelanaw, Manistee, Manitou, 
Mason, Muskegon, Newaygo, Oceana, and Wexford. 




RICHARD P. BLAND 



RICHARD PARKS BLAND 



KiCHARD Parks Bland, of Leljanon. was born near Haii- 
ford, Ky., August 11). LSjJo ; received an academic education ; 
removed to Missouri in 1855, thence to California, and 
thence to that portion of Utah now Nevada, locating at 
Virginia City ; practiced law : w as interested in mining 
operations in California and Nevada ; was county treasurer 
of Carson County, Utah Territory, from 1860 until the 
organization of the State government of Nevada ; returned 
to Missouri in 1865 ; located at Eolla, Mo., and practiced 
law with his brother, C. C. Bland, until he removed to 
Lebanon in August, 1869, and continued his practice 
there ; was elected to the Forty-Third. Foi'ty-Fourth. Forty- 
Fifth. Forty-Sixth. Forty-Seventh. Forty-Fighth, Forty- 
Ninth. Fiftieth. Fifty-First. Fifty-Second, and Fifty-Third 
Congresses, and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as 
a Silver Democi-at, receiving 24.605 votes, against 19,754 
votes for T. D. Huliliard. Republican, and 1,467 votes for 
J. H. Steincipher. Populist. He represents the eighth dis- 
trict of Missouri, which has a population of 188,313. and 
embraces the thirteen counties of Callaway, Camden. Cole, 
Cooper. Dallas. Laclede, Maries. Miller. Moniteau, Morgan, 
Osage, Phelps, and Pulaski. 



ROBERT N. BODINE 



Robert N. Bodine, of Paris, was born December 17, 1837, 
in Monroe County, Mo.; was graduated at the Missouri 
University; was principal of the Paris public school for a 
number of years, and is now engaged in the practice of law ; 
has held the office of prosecuting attorney and been elected 
twice a member of the Missouri legislature, in which capacity 
he was a member of the committee on the revision of the 
statutes ; was a member of the board of regents of the 
Kirksville Normal School at the time of his nomination for 
Congress ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a 
Democrat, receiving 25.862 votes, against 19,367 votes for 
C. A. Loomis, Republican, and 1,212 votes for J. T. Palson, 
Populist. He represents the second district of Missouri, 
which has a population of 179,344, and which embraces the 
eight counties of Carroll, Chariton, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, 
Monroe, Randolph, and Sullivan, 




WILLIAM S. BOOZE 



WILLIAM S. BOOZE 



William S. Booze, of Baltimore, was born in that city 
January tJ, 1S0"2 ; was educated at the pulilic .schools and at 
the Baltimore City College ; graduated from the latter in 
1879 ; studied medicine and graduated from the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons in lSS-2 : was nominated for Con- 
gress by the Republicans of the third congressional district 
in 1894 against Harry Welles Rusk, whose election to the 
House of Representatives he contested unsuccessfully ; was 
renominated in ISDfi and elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress 
as a Republican, receiving 2"2.()71 votes, against 15,977 votes 
for Thomas C. Weeks, Democrat, 494 votes for Henry L. 
Hillegeist. Prohibitionist, and 5'24 votes for William Toner, 
Socialist Labor. He represents the thii'd di.strirt of Mary- 
land, which has a population of 166,799, and embraces the 
Hrst, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, fifteenth, and 
sixteenth wards of the city of Baltimore. 



JEREMIAH D. BOTKIN 



Jeremiah D. Botkin. of Winfield. Kan., was born April 
24, 1849, in Logan County, 111. ; was educated in country 
schools; spent one year in De Pauw University, at Green- 
castle, Ind. ; went from the farm into the Methodist min- 
istry at the age of twenty-one years ; has tilled leading 
pulpits in his conference ; served six years as presiding 
elder: was delegate to the General Conference held in 
New York City in 1888. and to the Ecumenical Confer- 
ence in Washington. I). C, 1891 ; was early imbued with 
abolition sentiments, and was a Republican until recent 
years ; made three attempts to enter the army during the 
last year of the war. but. being under age and size, was 
rejected : was Prohibition candidate for governor of Kansas 
in 1888 ; having early espoused the Populist cause, that 
party nominated him for Congress in the third district in 
1894. but he was defeated ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth 
Congress as a Populist on the fusion ticket, as Congress- 
man at Large, receiving 168,400 votes, against 158,140 
votes for Richard W. Blue, Republican, and 1.947 votes 
for Williams, Prohibitionist. He is a Representative at 
Large. 




HENRY S. BOUTELL 



HENRY SHERMAN BOUTELL 



Henry Sherman Boutell, Kepublican. of Chicago, sou 
of Major Lewis Henry and Anna (xreene Boutell. was 
horn in Boston, Mass., March 14, 1.S56 ; graduated from 
Northwestern University, Evanston, 111., in 1S74, and from 
Harvard University in 1876 ; received the degree of A. M. 
from Harvard in 1.S77 ; was admitted to the liar of Illinois 
in 187y. and to that of the Supreme Court of the United 
States in 1885; was elected a member of the Illinois Gen- 
eral Assembly in 1884, and was one of the "103" who 
elected General Logan to the United States Senate; elected 
to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican at a special 
election held November 23, 1897, to fill the unexpired 
term of Edward Dean Cooke, deceased, receiving 10,212 
votes against 9.3(iO votes for Vincent H. Perkins, Demo- 
crat. He represents the sixth district of Illinois, which 
has a population of 172,811, and embraces part of Cook 
County, and the twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-second, 
twenty-third, and twenty-fourth wards, that part of the 
twenty-fifth ward south of the center line of Diversey 
street and west of the center line of Halstead street, and 
that part of the twenty-sixth ward south of the center 
line of Belmont Avenue, of the city of Chicago. 




CHARLES A. BOUTELLE 



CHARLES ADDISON BOUTELLE 



Charles Addison Boutelle, of Bangor, was born at 
Damariscotta, Lincoln County, Me., February 9, 1S39; was 
educated in the public schools at Brunswick and at Yar- 
mouth Academy : early adopted the profession of his father, 
a shipmaster, and on returning from a foreign voyage in 
the spring of 1862 volunteered and was appointed acting 
master in the L^nited States navy ; he served in the North 
and South Atlantic and West Gulf squadrons ; took part 
in the blockade of Charleston and Wilmington, the Poco- 
taligo expedition, the capture of St. Johns Bluff, and occupa- 
tion of Jacksonville. Fla.. and while an oftlcer of LT. S. S. 
Sassacus was promoted to lieutenant " for gallant conduct in 
the engagement with the rebel ironclad Albemarle," May 5, 
1864 ; afterwards, in command of LI. S. S. Nyanza, partici- 
pated in the capture of ]\Iobile and in receiving surrender 
of the Confederate fleet, and was assigned to command of 
naval forces in Mississippi Sound ; honorably discharged at 
his own request January 14. 1866 ; engaged in commercial 
business in New York ; in 1870 became managing editor and 
in 1874 proprietor of the Bangor (Me.) TLA/// tnnJ Courier; 
was a district delegate to the national Republican conven- 
tion in 1876 ; was delegate at large and chairman of Maine 
delegation in the national Republican convention of 1888 ; 
was unanimously nominated in ISSO as Republican candi- 
date for Congress in the fourth Maine district ; was elected 
Representative at Large to the Forty-Eighth Congress; 
was elected as Representative from the fourth district to 



CHARLES ADDISON BOUTELLE 

the Forty-Niuth. Fiftieth. Fifty-First. Fifty-Second. Fifty- 
Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses, and was reelected to 
the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 21,269 
votes, against 9,048 votes for Andrew J. Chase, Democrat, 
932 votes for George W. Park, Prohibitionist, and 894 votes 
for Oliver D. Chapman, Populist. He represents the fourth 
district of Maine, which has a population of 183.070, and 
embraces the four counties of Aroostook, Penobscot, Pisca- 
taquis, and Washington. 




THOMAS J. BRADLEY 



THOMAS J. BRADLEY 



Thomas J. Bradley, of New York City, was born January 
2, 1S7U, at No. 81 Lewis Street, in the city of New Y^ork ; 
attended public schools until June, 1882, when he gradu- 
ated. He then attended the College of the City of New 
York, from which he was graduated with the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts in June, 1887 ; taught in the public schools 
of New York City from 1887 until 1891, at the same time 
attending the ITni versify Law School, from which institu- 
tion he was graduated as a Bachelor of Laws in 1881) ; in 
1891 was appointed a deputy assistant district attorney of 
the county of New York, which position he held till July, 
1895, when he resigned to attend to his private law prac- 
tice ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as the reg- 
ular Democratic candidate, receiving 11.002 votes, against 
8,379 votes for Timothy J. Campbell, National Democrat, 
and 4.371 votes for Daniel De Leon, Socialist. He repre- 
sents the ninth district of New York, which has a popula- 
tion of 189,067, and comprises the fourth, sixth, and eighth 
assembly districts of the county of New York. 




WILLIAM G. BRANTLEY 



WILLIAM G. BRANTLEY 



William G. Brantley, of Brunswick, was born at Black- 
shear, Pierce County, Ga., on September IS, 1S60, and lived 
there until his removal to Brunswick in 1889 ; was educated 
in common schools, with two years at LIniversity of Georgia ; 
read law with ex-Congressman John C. Nicholls, and was 
admitted to the bar in October, 1881 ; represented Pierce 
County in Georgia house of representatives in 1884-85 ; rep- 
resented third senatorial district in Georgia senate in 
1886-87 ; was elected solicitor-general (prosecuting attorney) 
of Brunswick circuit in 1888 for a term of four years, and 
reelected in 1892 for another term of four years, which 
last term had not expired when an unexpected nomina- 
tion to Congress, unanimously made, was tendered him on 
June 18, 1896 ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as 
a Democrat, receiving 9.141 votes, against 6,019 votes for 
Benjamin Milikin, Populist. He represents the eleventh 
district of Georgia, which has a population of 155,948, and 
comprises the eighteen counties of Appling, Brooks, Camden, 
Charlton, Clinch, Coffee, Echols, Dodge, Glynn, Irwin, John- 
son, Laurens, Lowndes, Montgomery, Pierce, Telfair, Ware, 
and Wayne. 




JOHN L. BRENNER 



JOHN L. BRENNER 



John L. Brenner, of Dayton, was born in Wayne Town- 
ship, Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1832 ; received a com- 
mon-school education ; worked on the farm summers and 
attended school winters until twenty years old, when he 
attended the Springfield, Ohio, Academy ; was engaged in 
farming until 1S62, when he engaged in the nursery busi- 
ness, which pursuit he followed quite successfully until 
1874 ; he then engaged in the leaf-tobacco business, his 
present occupation ; was married in the fall of 1S66, and 
then made Dayton his home ; never held any public office 
except police commissioner; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth 
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 27,434 votes, against 
27,333 votes for Robert M. Nevin, Republican, and 254 votes 
for Joel S. Stewart, Populist. He represents the third 
district of Ohio, which has a population of 172,870, and 
embraces the three counties of Butler, Montgomery, and 
Preble. 



WILLIS BREWER 



Willis Brewer, of Hayneville. is a native Alabamian; 
entered the military service of the Confederate States 
at the age of eighteen : has been a journalist, has prac- 
ticed law. and has written books ; is now a planter : in 
1871 was county treasurer of Low'ndes ; was State auditor 
from 1876 to 1880: was State legislator from 1880 to 1882; 
State senator from 1882 to 1890 ; State legislator fi-oni 
1890 to 1894: State senator from 1894 till he resigned in 
1897: was elector for the State at large on the Demo- 
cratic ticket in 1892. and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth 
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 13,587 votes, against 
8.742 votes for A. T. Goodwyn. Populist. He represents the 
fifth congressional district of Alabama, which has a popu- 
lation of 185.720, and embraces the counties of Autauga, 
Chambers. Clay. Coosa. Elmore, Lowndes, Macon, Randolph, 
and Tallapoosa. 




HENRY C. BREWSTER 



HENRY C. BREWSTER 



Henry C. Brewster, of Kochestei'. was born at Roches- 
ter, N. Y., in 1845 ; became a bank clerk in LS63, a bank 
officer in 1868, which position he still occupies ; he has 
always taken an active interest in the Ilepiiblican party, 
and has contributed largely of his time and means toward 
its success ; has been vice-president of the New York State 
League of Republican Clubs and president of the Monroe 
County League, and is now vice-president of the National 
League of Republican Clubs ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth 
and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, 
receiving 25,399 votes, against 17,109 votes for William E. 
Ryan, Democrat, 386 votes for William H. Davis. Sound 
Money Democrat, 562 votes for William R. Hunt, Prohibi- 
tionist, 488 votes for Frank A. Silverman, Socialist Lal)or, 
and 617 votes for Howard W. Sneck, Populist. He repre- 
sents the thirty-first district of New York, which has a 
population of 189,586, and embraces the county of Monroe. 




CASE BRODERICK 



CASE BRODERICK 



Case Broderick, of Holton, was born in Grant County, 
Ind., September 23, 1S3'J ; received a common-school educa- 
tion ; removed to Kansas Territory in the fall of 1858 ; set- 
tled in Douglas Township, Jackson County, and engaged 
in farming: enlisted at Fort Scott, Kan., as a private soldier 
in the Second Kansas Battery, in 18(J2. and was mustered 
out at Leavenworth in August, 1865 ; was elected probate 
judge of Jackson County in 18()8 and was twice reelected; 
studied law and was admitted to the bar at Holton in 1S7(I : 
was elected county attorney of Jackson County in 1S7(J and 
reelected in 1878 ; was elected State senator in 1880 to 
represent Jackson and Pottawatomie Counties ; in March, 
1884, was appointed by President Arthur associate justice 
of the supreme court of Idaho for the tei'm of four years ; 
removed at once to Boise City, Idaho, assumed the duties 
of the position, and served until the fall of 1888, when he 
returned to Holton and resumed the practice of law ; is 
largely interested in farming and cattle raising ; was elected 
to the Fifty-Second, Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Con- 
gresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Re- 
publican, receiving 22,115 votes, against 11), 713 votes for 
H. E. Ballon, Fusionist. He represents the first district 
of Kansas, which has a population of 167,314, and embraces 
the eight counties of Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Jackson, 
Jefferson, Leavenworth, Nemaha, and Pottawatomie. 




JACOB H. BROMWELL 



JACOB H. BROMWELL 



Jacob H. Bromwell, of Wyoming (post office address, 
Cincinuati), was born May 11, 1S47, in Cincinnati, Ohio; 
received his education in the public schools of that city ; 
taught in the Cincinnati high schools for seventeen years ; 
graduated from the Cincinnati Law College in 1870 ; was 
assistant county solicitor of Hamilton County for four 
years ; was elected to the Fifty-Third Congress as a Re- 
publican to till the unexpired term made vacant by the 
resignation of Hon. John A. Caldwell ; was also at the 
same time elected to the Fifty-Fourth Congress ; was 
reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress, receiving 30,075 
votes, against 20.S7S votes for David S. Oliver. Democrat. 
He represents the second district of Ohio, which has a 
population of 205.293. and embraces Hamilton County — 
twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seven- 
teenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-second, 
twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty-eighth, 
twenty-ninth, and thirtieth wards of the city of Cincinnati, 
the townships of Springfield. Colerain. Greene. Delhi. Storrs, 
Miami, Whitewater, Harrison, and Crosby, and Elmwood, 
College Hill. Western, and Winton Place precincts of Mill 
Creek Township. 




MARRIOTT BROSIUS 



MARRIOTT BROSIUS 



Marriott Brosius, of Lancaster, was born iu Colerain 
Tovvuship, Lancaster County, Pa., March 7. 1843 ; received 
a common-school and academic education : enlisted as a 
private in Company K. Xiuety-Seventh IJegiment Pennsyl- 
vania Volunteers, in Xovember. 18G1. for three years, and 
March 6, 1863, while engaged on the Edisto River, was 
promoted to sergeant : participated in the siege of Charles- 
ton and the assault on Fort Wagner, and on the 28th of 
February. 1864, reenlisted as a veteran ; on May 20, 1864, 
participated in the l)rilliant charge at Gi-een Plains, in 
the Bermuda Hundred : in this encounter he sustained a 
severe wound, from the effects of which he has Ijeen a 
lifelong sufferer ; no bone now connects his right arm 
with his shoulder ; was discharged December 28. 1864, and 
on February 28, 1865. was commissioned a second lieuten- 
ant for bravery on the field of Imttle: after the war he 
finished his education at the Millersville Normal School. 
and took a course of law at the University of Michigan, 
Ann Arbor; was admitted to the bar in 1868. and has 
practiced his profession since ; is married ; in 18S2 was 
the Republican candidate for Congressnuin at Large, and 
was defeated, although running over 7.600 votes ahead of 
his ticket : was elected to the Fifty-First. Fifty-Second, 
Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to 
the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 24,122 
votes, against 8,252 votes for Edward D. Reilly, Democrat, 
and 525 votes for W. D. Snyder, Prohibitionist. His popu- 
larity was again shown by his reelection to the Fifty- 
Sixth Congress. He represents the tenth district of 
Pennsylvania, which has a population of 149,095, and 
embraces the countv of Lancaster. 




ROBERT F. BROUSSARD 



ROBERT F. BROUSSARD 



Egbert F. Broussard, of New Ilyeria, was born August 
17, 1864, on the Marie Louise plantation, near New Iberia, 
parish of Iberia, La. ; attended variou.s public and private 
schools, and in 1879 entered Georgetown LTni-versity, West 
Washington, D. C., where he remained until 18S2 : was 
appointed inspector of customs December 27, 18S5, at the 
port of New Orleans, and, upon passing civil-service exami- 
nation, was promoted to assistant weigher, and subsequently 
to export statistician at that port: during the time he was 
in the government service he entered the law school of 
Tulane University, of Louisiana, at New Orleans, and gradu- 
ated in 1889 ; immediately after the appointment of H. C. 
Warmouth as collector of the port of New Orleans under 
Harrison's administration, he tendered his resignation as 
statistician and moved to New Iberia, where he commenced 
the practice of law, in partnership with T. Donelson Foster, 
under the firm name of Foster i^- Broussard. and is still 
a member of that firm ; shortly after locating in New Iberia 
was elected a member of the Democratic parish executive 
committee, the Democratic congressional executive com- 
mittee of the third district, and the Democratic State cen- 
tral executive committee, which latter position he still 
holds ; in 1890 took active part in the controversy over the 
lottery question on the anti-lottery side, and canvassed the 
State in that memorable campaign, which resulted in the 
destruction of the Liouisiana State Lottery Company ; 
became the nominee of the anti-lottery wing of the Demo- 
cratic party for the district attorneyship of the nineteenth 



ROBERT F. BROUSSARD 

judicial district of Louisiana, to which position he was 
elected at the State election of 1892, he being the only one 
of that wing of the Democratic party elected in the district 
at that election : in 1S94 was unanimously renominated to 
the same position by the Democratic party and reelected 
at the election of that year ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth 
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 9.323 votes, against (i,49() 
votes for Taylor Beattie, Xational Republican. 155 votes for 
H. 0. Mayer, Regular Republican, and 196 votes for W. D. 
Gooch. Populist. He represents the third district of Louisi- 
ana, which has a population of 214,785, and embraces the 
parishes of Ascension. Assumption, Calcasieu, Cameron. 
Iberia. Iberville. Lafayette. Lafourche, St. Martin, St. Mary, 
Terrebonne, and Vermilion. 




SETH W. BROWN 



SETH W. BROWN 



Seth W. Brown, of Lel)anoii, was horn January 4, 1S43, 
near Waynesville. Warren County, Ohio ; was brought up 
on a farm and educated in the public schools ; was a 
member of Company H, Seventy-Ninth Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry : read law with Judge (jeorge R. Sage, and was 
admitted to the bar by the supreme court in 1S73 ; elected 
prosecuting attorney for Warren County in ISSO, and 
reelected in 1882 ; elected representative in the general 
assembly in 1883, and reelected in 1885, being a member 
of the finance committee of the house for four years, and 
chairman of that committee during his second term ; was 
chosen presidential elector on the Harrison ticket in 1888 
and was elected to the Fifty- Fifth Congress as a Republi- 
can, receiving 25,360 votes, against 21,358 votes for Hari-y 
W. Paxton, Democrat, and 336 votes for Frank S. Delo, 
Prohiliitionist. He represents the sixth district of Ohio, 
which has a population of 172.028, and embraces the six 
counties of Brown, Clermont, Clinton, Greene, Highland, 
and Warren. 




WALTER P. BROWNLOW 



WALTER PRESTON BROWNLOW 



Walter Preston Brownlow. of Jonesboro, was born 
in Abiugdon. Ya.; he attended common school for three 
years; because of the death of his father he earned his 
support from the age of ten ; he served an apprenticeship 
at the tinner's trade, and as a locomotive engineer, work- 
ing at these trades for several yeai's : he entered the 
newspaper business as a reporter for the Knoxville H'/z/Vy 
and Chronicle (edited by his uncle, the late Hon. William 
G. Brownlow, United States Senator) in 1876 ; in the same 
year he purchased the Herald (did Trihiaic, a Republican 
newspaper, published at Jonesljoro. of which he has since 
been the editor and proprietor ; was a delegate from liis 
district to the Repul)lican national conventions of ISSO 
and 1896, and a delegate from tlie State at large to the 
national convention of 1884; in 1880 was chairman of the 
campaign committee of his district ; in 1882 was elected a 
member of the Republican State committee and served as 
such for eight years, tw^o of which he was its chairman ; 
was appointed postmaster at Joneslioro in ]\Iarch. 1881, 
and resigned in December to accept the doorkeepers hi]) 
of the House of Representatives of the Forty-Seventh 
Congress; in 1884 and 1896 he was elected by the del- 
egations from his State to the national conventions as 
Tennessee's member of the Republican national committee ; 
in 1896 w^as chosen at a primary election as the nominee 
for Congress, receiving 8,843 votes to 6,590 for W. E. F. 
Milburn, and 5,448 for W. C. Anderson ; was elected to the 



WALTER PRESTON BROWNLOW 

Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Protectionist Republican, in a 
district which was represented from 1843 to 1853 by the 
late President Andrew Johnson as a free-trade Democrat, 
receiving 25,075 votes, against 13,916 cast for Lacey L. Law- 
rence, Democrat, 1)30 for W. H. Nelson, bolting Republican, 
and 232 for R. S. Cheves, Prohibitionist. This district fur- 
nished more white soldiers to the Union army than any 
in the United States. He represents the first district of 
Tennessee, which has a population of 183.541, and embraces 
the counties of Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Crainger, Greene, 
Hamblen. Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson. Sullivan, Unicoi, 
and Washington. 




FERDINAND BRUCKER 



FERDINAND BRUCKER 



Ferdinand Brucker, of Saginaw, was born January 8. 
185S, at Bridgeport, Saginaw Cor.nty, ^lich.; received a 
common-school education, and graduated from the law 
department of the University of Michigan in the class of 
18S1 ; is a lawyer by profession ; served as alderman of the 
city of East Saginaw two years, 1882 to 1884 ; held the 
office of judge of probate for Saginaw County tw^o terms, 
from 1888 to ISIJG. and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Con- 
gress as a Silver Democrat, receiving 20/J*.)2 votes, against 
20,158 votes for William S. Linton. He represents the 
eighth district of Michigan, which has a population of 
172.242. and which eml)races the foui- counties of Clinton, 
Saginaw\ Shiawassee, and Tuscola. 




CHARLES N. BRUMM 



CHARLES N. BRUMM 



Charles N. Brumm. of Minersville, was born at Potts ville, 
Pa., June 9. LSSS; received a common-school education, 
with the exception of one year at Pennsylvania College, 
Gettysburg, Pa.; served an apprenticeship at the trade of 
watchmaker ; studied law two years in the office of the late 
Howell Fisher. Esq.; left studies and enlisted as a private 
under the hrst call of President Lincoln for three-months' 
men, and was elected first lieutenant of Company L Fifth 
Pennsylvania Volunteers; after the expiration of his term 
reenlisted September 15. 1861. for three years, and was 
elected first lieutenant of Company K. Seventy-Sixth Penn- 
sylvania Volunteers, November 18. 1861; was detailed on 
the staff of General Barton as assistant quartermaster and 
aid-de-camp, which position he held under Generals Barton 
and Pennypacker until the expiration of his term of service; 
resumed the study of law under the late E. 0. Parry, and 
was admitted to the bar in 1871 ; has since practiced the 
profession of law at the Schuylkill (Jounty bar ; was elected 
to Congress in 1878 to represent the thirteenth district of 
Pennsylvania, but was counted out by 192 votes ; during 
the administration of President Harrison he was appointed 
Deputy Attorney-Genei'al, I»ut declined to accept the 
appointment ; was elected to the Forty-Seventh. Forty- 
Eighth, Forty-Ninth. Fiftieth, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses, 
and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, 
receiving 16.613 votes, against 14.512 votes for Watson F, 
Shepherd, Democrat, and 289 votes for S. G. M. Hollopeter, 
Prohibitionist. Mr. Brumm represents the thirteenth dis- 
trict of Pennsylvania, which has a population of 154,163, 
and embraces the county of Schuylkill 




STEPHEN BRUNDIDGE, Jr. 



STEPHEN BRUNDIDGE, Jr. 



Stephen Brundidge, Jr., of Searcy, was honi in White 
County, Ark.. January 1. iS.'j?; was educated in the private 
schools of the county ; studied law at Searcy in the firm 
of Coody & McRae, and in LS78 w^as admitted to the bar, 
and has since resided in Searcy, where he has been en- 
gaged in the practice of law ; in September. ISSG, was 
elected prosecuting attorney for the first judicial district 
of Arkansas, and reelected in 1888 without opposition; 
since 1890 has served a term as member of the Demo- 
cratic State central committee of Arkansas, and was 
elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiv- 
ing 17,106 votes, against 5,040 votes for B. F. Bodenhamer, 
Republican. He represents the sixth district of Arkansas, 
w'hich has a population of 160,181, and embraces the 
twelve counties of Arkansas. Baxter. Cleburne, Fulton. In- 
dependence, Izard, Lonoke, Marion, Monroe, Prairie, Stone, 
and White. 




MELVILLE BULL 



MELVILLE BULL 



Melville Bull, of Middletown. was born at Newport, 
K. L, in 1854 ; prepared for college at Philips Academy, 
Exeter; graduated at Harvard College in 1877; upon 
graduation engaged in farming and is still so engaged ; 
was representative from Middletuwn in State legislature 
1883-85 ; senator 1885-92 ; lieutenant-governor 1892-94 ; 
member of Republican State central committee 1885 to 
1895; was delegate to the Repul)Iican national convention 
in 1888; while in the legislature was chairman of the 
militia committee, on the joint special committee to in- 
vestigate State institutions, and chairman of the special 
committee to select, purchase, and fit up permanent camp 
grounds for the State militia ; took an active part in 
establishing the naval reserve militia of the State ; has 
been one of board of managers of the Rhode Island Col- 
lege of Agriculture and IMechanic Arts and Experiment 
Station since its establishment in 1888 ; in November, 
1892, was a candidate for Congress, receiving 640 plu- 
rality, but the laws of Rhode Island requiring a majority 
at that time, was not elected ; was elected to the Fifty- 
Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth ('ongress as a 
Republican, receiving 17,378 votes, against 8,542 votes for 
George T. Brown, Democrat, 684 votes for James A. Will- 
iams, Prohibitionist, and 664 votes for George A. Ballard, 
Socialist Labor. He represents the first district of Rhode 
Island, having a population of 180,548, and comprising 
the counties of Bristol. Newport, and part of Providence, 
including the city of Providence. 




ROBERT E. BURKE 



ROBERT EMMET BURKE 



Robert Emmet Burke, of Dallas, was born in Tallapoosa 
Count\% Ala., August 1, 1S47 ; volunteered as a private in 
Company D, Tenth Georgia Cavalry, at the age of sixteen 
and served until close of the war ; removed to Texas in 
1S()6 and located at Jefferson ; was admitted to the bar in 
November. 1870; located at his present home in 1S71 ; was 
elected county judge in 187S, serving three consecutive 
terms ; was elected district judge in ISSS. and was reelected 
in 1892 without opposition ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth 
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 33,144 votes, against 
25,230 votes for Barnett Gibbs. Populist Republican, and 
one vote scattering. He represents the sixth district of 
Texas, which has a population of 210.907. and emliraces 
the seven counties of Bosque, Dallas, Ellis. Hill. Johnson, 
Kaufman, and Navarro. 




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EDWIN C. BURLEIGH 



Edwin C. Burleigh, of Augusta, was born at Liuneus, 
Aroostook County, Me., November 27, 1S43 ; was educated 
in the common schools of his native town and at Houlton 
Academy ; has been for many years largely interested in 
the timber lands of his State : enlisted in the cavalry 
during the rebellion, and, being rejected by the examining 
surgeon on account of ill health, was given a place in the 
adjutant-general's office, where he served till the close of 
the war; was State land agent in 1876. 1877. and 1878. and 
also served during the same years as assistant clerk of the 
Maine house of representatives ; was elected treasurer of 
State in 1885 ; reelected in 1887, and in the same year 
acquired a controlling interest in the Keyuebec Journal, 
published at Augusta, which he still retains; resigned 
the office of treasurer in 1888, having received the Re- 
publican nomination for governor; was governor of Maine 
in 1889. 1890, 1891, and 1892; was a delegate to the na- 
tional Republican convention at St. Louis in 1896 ; was 
elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican at a 
special election held June 21, 1897, to till the vacancy caused 
by the death of Hon. Seth L. Milliken. In 1898 he was 
reelected to the Fifty-Sixth Congress. He represents the 
third district of Maine, which has a population of 157.710, 
and comprises the four counties of Hancock, Kennebec, 
Somerset, and Waldo. 




THEODORE E. BURTON 



THEODORE E. BURTON 



Theodore E. Burton, of Cleveland, was born at Jeffer- 
son, Ashtabula County. Ohio, December 20, 1S51 ; studied at 
Grand River Institute, Austinburg, Ohio, at Iowa College, 
Grinnell, Iowa, and at Oberlin College, from which last in- 
stitution he graduated in 1872 ; began the practice of law 
at Cleveland in 187") ; was a member of the Fifty-First 
Congress, but was defeated for reelection in 1890; was 
elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth 
Congress as a Republican, receiving 25,527 votes, against 
20.025 votes for L. A. Russell, Democrat. 41) votes for T. P. 
McDonough. National Democrat. 226 votes for L. B. Tuck- 
erman, Populist, 177 votes for E. Jay Pinney, Prohibition- 
ist, and 203 votes for Walter Gillett. Socialist Labor. He 
represents the twenty-hrst district of Ohio, which has a 
population of 172,707. and embraces the first, second, third, 
fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, 
twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seven- 
teenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first, 
twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, 
and tweiity-seveuth wards of the city of Cleveland. 




THOMAS S. BUTLER 



THOMAS S. BUTLER 



Thomas S. Butler, of West Chester, was born in Uwchlan 
Township, Chester County, Pa., Nov^ember 4, 1855 ; was edu- 
cated in the common schools of the same place and at 
Wyers's and Worralls's Academies and at the Normal 
School of West Chester; is a member of the Chester 
County bar, and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress 
as a Republican, receiving 15/)lfi votes, against 13,369 
votes for John B. Eobinson, Eepublican, and 9,288 votes 
for William H. Berry, Silver Democrat. He represents 
the sixth district of Pennsylvania, which has a population 
of about lG4.0(i(), and which embraces the counties of 
Chester and Delaware. 







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JAMES R. CAMPBELL 



JAMES R. CAMPBELL 



James E. Campbell, of McLean.slK)ro, TIL. was born in 
Hamilton County. 111.. May 4, 1S53 (his ancestors were 
among the tirst settlers of Illinois): was educated at Notre 
Dame, Ind. ; read law. and was admitted to the bar by the 
supreme court of Illinois in 1S77; in 1S7S purchased the 
McLeansboro Times ( the only Democratic paper in the 
county), and has since edited it ; was elected to the Illinois 
house of representatives in 1H84 and IHSC) ; advanced to the 
Senate in 18SS. and reelected in 1S1>'2; dnring these twelve 
years' continuous service in the general asseml)ly of Illinois 
he participated in the memorable Morrison-Logan contest 
for the LTnited States Senate, in the session of 188") ; was 
one of the 101 Democrats that elected (ien. John M. Palmer 
United States Senator in 181)1 ; has served for the past 
twelve years as a member of the judiciary, appropriation, 
revenue, and agricultural committees, and during this time 
introduced and secured the passage of many important 
bills of interest to the citizens of Illinois ; was elected to the 
Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, indorsed by the Pop- 
ulists, receiving 22,859 votes, against 19,508 votes for Orlando 
Burrell. Repul)lican. He represents the twentieth district 
of Illinois, which has a population of 182,422, and which 
embraces the ten counties of Clay, Edwards, Franklin, (ialla- 
tin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jefferson, Wabash, Wayne, and 
White. 




JOSEPH G. CANNON 



JOSEPH G. CANNON 



Joseph G. Cannon, of Danville, was born at Guilford, 
N. C, May 7. 1S86 : is a lawyer ; was State's attorney in 
Illinois, March, ISGI, to December, 1868 ; was elected to the 
Forty-Third. Forty-Fourth, Forty-Fifth. Forty-Sixth, Forty- 
Seventh, Forty-Eighth. Forty-Ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-First, 
Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to 
the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 28,5(50 
votes, against 18,613 votes for George G. Vance, Democrat, 
and 478 votes for J. J. Hales. Prohibitionist. He represents 
the twelfth district of Illinois, which has a population of 
177,359, and embraces the four counties of Iroquois, Kanka- 
kee, Vermilion, and Will. 




ADIN B. CAPRON 



ADIN BALLOU CAPRON 



Adin Ballou Capron. of Smithtield. I'rovidence County. 
K. 1.. son of Carlile W. and Al)l)v (Bates) Capron. was born 
in Mendon. Mass.. January '.). 1S41 ; educated at Woonsocket 
High School and Westhrook Seminary, near Portland, Me.; 
is engaged in milling and dealing in grain ; enlisted as 
sergeant in Second Rhode Island Infantry May. LSIil ; pro- 
moted to sergeant-major July 11. l.S(U ; commissioned 
lieutenant September. iSljl. and ordered on detached 
service in the signal corps December. 1861 : served in the 
signal corps until the close of the war. having been com- 
missioned first lieutenant in the signal corps. PTnited States 
Army, March 3, 1863, and receiving promotion to the rank 
of captain and major by brevet ; elected representative to 
the general assembly of Rhode Island in 18S7, and reelected 
in 1888. 1889. 1890. 1891. and 1892; was speaker of the 
house in 1891 and 1892: was Republican candidate for Con- 
gress in 1892 ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth ('ongress as a 
Republican, receiving 16.612 votes, against 8,088 votes for 
Lucius F. C. (Jarvin. Democrat. ].2<)7 votes for Henry B. 
Metcalf. Prohibitionist, and 254 votes for James Jefferson, 
Socialist Labor. He represents the second district of 
Rhode Island, which has a population of 164.958. and 
embraces the cities of Pawtucket and Woonsocket and the 
towns of Lincoln. Cumberland. North Providence. Smith- 
field. North Smithtield. Burrillville. (iloucester. Scituate. 
Foster, Johnson. Cranston. "Warwick. Coventry. West Green- 
wich. East Greenwich. North Kingston. South Kingston. 
Exeter, Richmond. Charlestown, Hopkinton. and Westerly. 





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E. W. CARMACK 



E. W. CARMACK 



E. W. Oarmack, of Memphis, was born near Castalian 
Springs, Sumner County, Tenn.. November 5, 1858 ; received 
an academic education ; studied law and l^egan practicing 
at Columbia. Tenn.; was elected to the legislature as a 
Democrat in 1884:; in 188(5 joined the editorial staff of the 
Nashville American; in 1888 founded the Nashville Deiixi- 
craf ; afterwards became editor-in-chief of the Nashville 
Anierican, when the Deiitocraf was merged into that paper ; 
in 1892 became editor of the Memphis ('oinninrial ; was 
delegate for the State at large to the Democratic national 
convention in 1896 ; was nominated for Congress by the 
Democrats of the tenth congressional district, the convention 
being presided over by Hon. Isham G. Harris, as chairman, 
and elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress, receiving 11. 024 
votes, against 10,556 votes for Josiah Patterson, Independent 
Gold Democrat, and 926 votes for B. (1. West, Populist. He 
represents the tenth district of Tennes.see, which ha.s a 
population of 186,918. and embraces the four counties of 
Fayette. Hardeman. Shelby, and Tipton. 




CURTIS H. CASTLE 



CURTIS HARVEY CASTLE 



Curtis Harvey Castle, of Merced. Cal., was born Octo- 
ber 4, 1848, in Knox County, 111.; attended Knox College. 
Galesburg, 111., through Soi^homore year, when he trans- 
ferred to Northwestern University, at Evanston, 111.; 
graduated in 187'2 with the degree of B. A.; a few years 
later received the degree of A. J\l.; was employed as a 
teacher for four years ; studied medicine and was grad- 
uated in 1878 from College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
Keokuk, Iowa; is a member of the American Academy of 
Medicine ; has served as chairman of the Populist executive 
committee of his county, and is a member of the State exec- 
utive committee ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Cong^-ess 
as the fusion candidate of the Populist and Democratic 
parties, receiving 19,188 votes, against l8,yoi) votes for W. 
W. Bowers, Republican. 2.189 votes for W. H. Carlson, In- 
dependent, and 802 votes for J. W. Webb. Prohibitionist. 
He represents the seventh district of California, which 
has a population of .184,y()8, and embraces the counties of 
Stanislaus. Merced, San Benito, Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tu- 
lare, Kern, San Bernardino, Kiverside, Orange, and San 
Diego. 




THOMAS C. CATCHINGS 



THOMAS CLENDINEN CATCHINGS 



Thomas Clendinen Catch ings. of Vickshurg. was born 
iu Hinds County, Miss.. January 11, Ihi-tV ; entered the 
University^ of Mississippi in September, 1S59. and, after 
passing through the Freshman and pai't of the Sophomore 
years. left to enter Oakland College, Mississippi, where he 
passed into the junior cla.ss in the spring of ISGI ; entered 
the Confederate army early in 1861, and served through- 
out the war ; commenced the study of law in 1865, after 
the termination of the war; was admitted to the bar in 
May, 1866, and has since practiced law at Vicksburg : was 
elected to the State senate of Mississippi in 1875 for a 
term of four years, but resigned on being nominated in 
1877 for attorney-general ; was elected attorney-general of 
Mississippi in November, 1877. for a term of four years ; 
was renominated by acclamation in August, 1881, and 
elected in the following November, resigning February 16, 
1885 ; was elected to the Forty-Ninth, Fiftieth. Fifty-First, 
Fifty-Second, Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses, and 
reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, re- 
ceiving 3,069 votes, against 369 votes for C. J. Jones, 
Republican, 532 votes for J. R. Chalmers, Free-Silver Re- 
publican, and 80 votes for p]asterlin. Independent Republi- 
can, He represents the third district of Mississippi, which 
has a population of 184.297, and comprises the ten counties 
of Bolivar, Coahoma, Issaquena, Leflore, Quitman, Sharkey, 
Sunflower, Tunica, Warren, and Washington. 




CHARLES A. CHICKERING 



CHARLES A. CHICKERING 



Charles A. Chickering. of Copenhagen, was born in 
Harrisburg, Lewis County. N. Y.. Noveml^er 26. bS48 ; ed- 
ucated in the common schools and at Lowville Academj-, 
and was for a time a teacher in that institution; was 
school commissioner of Lewis County 18(5") to LS75; mem- 
ber of assembly in 187i). 1880, and 1881 : was elected clerk 
of the assembly in 1884 and reelected in iSSo. 1886, 1887, 
1888. LS8y, and 1890; has been chairman of the Republi- 
can county committee of Lewis County, secretary of the 
Republican State committee, and also a member of the ex- 
ecutive committee of that body ; was elected to the Fifty- 
Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the 
Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving '21:2i2 
votes, against 16.248 votes for Oscar 'SI. Wood, Democrat, 
and 870 votes for T. B. Deuenderf. Prohibitionist. He rep- 
resents the twenty-fourth district of New York, which 
has a population of 170,41)5. and which embraces the coun- 
ties of Jefferson, Oswego, and Lewis. 




JOHN D. CLARDY 



JOHN D. CLARDY 



John D. Clardy, of Newstead. was horn in Smith 
County. Tenn., August 30, 1828 ; went with his parents to 
Christian County, Ky., in 1831 ; was brought up on a farm 
and educated in the country schools and at (leorgetown 
College. Scott County, Ky.. where he graduated in 1848 at 
the age of nineteen ; studied medicine and graduated in 
the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania 
in 1851 ; practiced medicine for a number of years, but for 
the last twenty years has devoted liis time to general 
farming and stock raising ; was never a candidate for office 
until 1890. when he was elected to represent Christian 
County in the constitutional convention ; was a candidate 
for governor in 1891 ; was defeated for the Democratic 
nomination by Hon. John Young Brown; w-as appointed 
and served as one of the State commissioners to the Co- 
lumbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893 ; was elected to the 
Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as 
a Democrat, receiving 23,585 votes, against 17,276 votes 
for E. T. Franks, Republican, 433 votes for J. W. Lockett. 
Gold Democrat, and 68 votes for Walter Southall, Populist. 
He represents the second district of Kentucky, which has 
a population of 178.808. and embi-aces the eight counties 
of Webster, Christian, Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, Hop- 
kins, McLean, and Union. 




CHAMP CLARK 



CHAMP CLARK 



Champ Clark, of Missouri, member of the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs, was born in Anderson (Jounty, Ky., March 
7, 1S50. He has been a farm hand, stoi-e clerk, teacher, 
editor, and lawyer. He ]:)egan teaching l)efore he was hf- 
teen, and was president of Marshall College. West Virginia, 
at twenty-three. He was educateil in tlie common schools, 
Kentucky I'niversity, Bethany ("ollege. and ('incinnati Law 
School. He graduated from Bethany College in LS78 with 
the highest honors of liis class. — the largest class in the 
history of that institution, and the Cincinnati Law School 
in ]S75. He has been practicing law ever since, and has 
held these offices : city attorney of Louisiana, prosecuting 
attorney, presidential elector, special judge of the Louisiana 
court of common pleas, member of ]\Iiss()uri legislature, 
Represenfative in Ccmgress. He spends much time on the 
lecture platform, his favorite lectures being "Picturesque 
Public Men." "' Richer than Golconda." "Aaron Burr." " Dan- 
iel Webster." "Border Heroes." "Sir Robert Peel and the 
Struggle for Free Trade in England." " Lnperial .Missouri." 
and "Masonry and Kindred Societies." In 1881 he was 
married to Miss Genevieve Bennett. To them have been 
born four children. — Little Champ. Ann Hamilton. Bennett, 
and Genevieve, the latter two of whom survive. He at- 
tends punctually to all congressional duties, committee, 
and department work, and the sittings of the House. 
Wlien interested in a subject, he participates in the de- 
bates thereon. Although not a frequent speaker, some of 



CHAMP CLARK 

his congressional speeche>s have been widely circulated in 
the newsimpers, especially those on " The Repeal of the 
Federal Election Laws,'' "Obscure Heroes," "The Country 
Editor." "Cuba." "The Tariff," and "Hawaii." His address 
at Tammany Hall. July 4, 1S93, on "The Trans-Mississippi 
Democracy," which appeared in whole (_)r in part in nearly 
every paper in the land, by reason of its strong Western 
flavor and radical silver utterance, brought him wealth of 
both praise and abuse. That was his introduction to the 
American people. Criticism in the press on that speech 
ranged from suggestions that he should be President to 
comparisons to Jesse James. The St. Louis Bepuhlic pro- 
nounces Mr. Clark to lie "one of his party's foremost oratoi's 
in the House," the Washington Post denominates him "the 
most picturesque figure " in that body, while the Louisville 
Courier-Journal describes him as "the foremost man of 
letters in the American Congress." Second Democrat on 
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, he naturally studied 
closely American-Spanish complications, being from the 
first a staunch advocate of Cuban independence. Jan- 
uary 20, 185)8, i)iter (ilia, he said : — 

Surely the time for dilly-dallving and shilly-shallying on the Cuban 
question is j>ast. 

There never was any sense in minting words about it. 

The liour for honest, courageous, unecjuivoeal speet-h and action 
is at hand. 

This Republic ought to <rrant the Cuban patriots belligerent rights, 
and recognize their independence. 

If Spain does not bring tlie war to a speedy conclusion, the 
United States ouijht to expel her from the Western Hemisphere. 

These things ought to be done in the cause of humanity, as the 
beginning of a sound and permanent business policy, and as evidence 
of our settled determination to be supreme in the affairs of our half 
of the world. 

We Democrats and Populists stand here anxious tt) remove from 
America her great reproach. We will contribute 155 votes to the 
good cause. If only twenty-four righteous Republicans will join us 



CHAMP CLARK 

in this noble work, before tlie sun sets this day we will send the c^lad 
tidings ringing round the world: -'Cuba is free! Free, thank God, 
by act of the American Congress ! " 

He represents the ninth district of Missouri, which has 
a population of 152,442, and embraces the nine counties of 
Audrain, Crawford. Gasconade, Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike, 
Ralls, St. Charles, and Warren. 




SAMUEL M. CLARK 



SAMUEL M. CLARK 



Samuel M. Clark, of Keokuk, was born on a farm in 
Van Buren County, Iowa, October IL LS4:2 ; attended a 
few terms of public school and one jear at Des Moines 
Valley College; studied law with (ieorge (1. Wright, of 
Keosauqua, and John W. Kankin and George W. McCrary, 
of Keokuk ; enlisted as private in Company H, Nineteenth 
Jowa Infantry, but was not mustered in because of ill 
health; was admitted to the bar .lune, ]S(i4; has l)een 
editor of the Keokuk <!(ifc Cifij for thirty-one years; was 
a delegate to national Kepublican conventions of 1872, 1S7(). 
and LSSO ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected 
to the Fifty-Fifth Congress, receiving '21.^)44 votes, against 
18.649 votes for Casey. Fusiouist, and 285 votes for Hewitt,. 
Prohibitionist. He represents the first district of Iowa, 
which has a population of 153.712. and embraces the seven 
counties of Des Moines. Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Van 
Buren, and Washington. 




FRANK G. CLARKE 



FRANK GAY CLARKE 



Frank Gay Clarke, of Peterboro. was born in Wilton, 
N. H., September 10. LS50; wa.«i educated at Kimball Union 
Academy, Meriden, N. H., and at Dartmouth College ; was 
admitted to the bar in 187(), and has practiced law at 
Peterboro ever since ; was a member of the State house 
of representatives of 18S5 ; of the State senate in ISSIJ; 
reelected to the former in 1891, and was chosen speaker 
of that body, which consisted of 357 members, one more 
than the present National House of Representatives ; was 
appointed colonel on the military staff of (Governor Hale, 
and served in that capacity from 1885 to 1887 ; was elected 
to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 
26,699 votes, against 13.877 votes for Daniel M. White, 
Democrat, 544 votes for Allen W. Werk. Prohibition, 193 
votes for Arthur H. Dniry, National, and 178 votes for 
Elias M. Blodgett, People's. He represents the second dis- 
trict of New Hampshire, which has a population of 185.998, 
and embraces: Counties — Cheshire. Coos. Grafton, and Sul- 
livan; Hillsboro County — towns of Amherst, Antrim, 
Bennington. Brookline, Deering. Francestown, Greenfield, 
Greenville, Hancock, Hillsboro, Hollis, Lyndeboro. Mason, 
Milford, Mount Vernon, Nashua. New Boston, New Ipswich. 
Peterboro, Sharon. Temple. Weare, Wilton, and Windsor: 
Merrimack County — towns of Andover, Boscawen, Bow, 
Bradford. Concord. Danbury, Dunbarton, Franklin. Henni- 
ker. Hill, Hopkinton, Newbury, New London, Salisbury, 
Sutton, Warner, Webster, and Wilmot. 




HENRY D. CLAYTON 



HENRY D. CLAYTON 



Henry D. Clayton, of Eufaula, Ala., was born in Bar- 
bour County, Ala.; is a lawyer by profession, and was 
elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiv- 
ing ll.(i71 votes, against 5,754 votes for (1. L. Comer. Na- 
tional Democrat, and 4,759 votes for E. C. Jackson. Populist. 
Mr. Clayton represents the third district of Alabama, 
which has a population of 1711. (580, and which embraces 
the counties of Barbour. Bollock. Coffee. Dale. Geneva, 
Henry, Lee. and Russell. 




CHARLES F. COCHRAN 



CHARLES F. COCHRAN 



Charles F. Cochran, of St. Joseph, was born in Kirks- 
ville, Adair County. Mo., September 27. lS4y ; resided in 
Atchison. Kan., from 1S60 till 1HS5; was educated in the 
common schools ; is a practical printer and newspaper 
man and a lawyer ; served four years as prosecuting at- 
torney of Atchison County, Kan., and four years as a 
member of the Missouri senate : was elected to the Fifty- 
Fifth Congress as a Democrat and the nominee of both 
the Democratic and Populist conventions, receiving 21,512 
votes, against 17.683 votes for George C. Crowtber. Repub- 
lican, and 143 votes for Willis Weaver. Prohibitionist. He 
represents the fourth congressional district of Missouri. 
which has a population of 164.264. and which embraces 
the six counties of Andrew. Atchison, Buchanan. Holt, 
Nodaway, and Platte. 




AARON V. S. COCHRANE 



AARON V. S. COCHRANE 



Aaron V. S. Cochrane, of Hudson, was l)oni March 14, 
1858. at Coxsackie. N. Y. : is a son of Francis L'ochrane ; was 
brought up on a farm ; was educated in a district school and 
at Claverack Academy, in Claverack. N. Y. : entered Yale 
College in 1.S75. and was graduated in lS7il; he then removed 
to Hudson and entered on the study of law : w'as admitted 
to the bar in ISSI. and has ever since i^racticed his pi'o- 
fession in Hudson ; is a member of the law hrm of Brownell 
& Cochrane: in 1SS7 and ISHS was police justice of Hudson; 
was elected district attorney of Columliia County in ISSl) 
and served three years ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Con- 
gres.s as a Republican, receiving '23.509 votes, against 17,785 
votes for Ceorge G. Miller. Democrat. ;iSll votes for Elmer T. 
Haines. National Democrat, and 472 votes for Nathaniel li. 
Powei's. Prohilntionist. He represents the nineteenth dis- 
trict of New York, which has a population of I7().(iS:^. and 
which consists of the two tcunties of Columbia and 
Itensselaer. 




JAMES H. CODDING 



JAMES H. CODDING 



James H. Codding, of Towanda, was born in Pike Town- 
ship, Bradford County, Pa., July 8, 1841); removed in 1S54 
to Towanda, where he has since resided ; was educated at 
Susquehanna Collegiate Institute, and in 1.SG8 engaged in 
the hardware business; in 187(5 commenced the study of 
law, and has practiced since his admission to the bar; 
was elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty- 
Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 20,210 votes, 
against 11,444 votes for Charles P. Shaw, Democrat, and 
1,150 votes for Charles H. Dana, Prohibitionist. He repre- 
sents the fifteenth district of Pennsylvania, which has a 
population of 146,227. and embraces the four counties of 
Bradford. Susquehanna, Wayne, and Wyoming. 




DAVID G. COLSON 



DAVID GRANT COLSON 



David Grant Colson, of Middlesboro, was born April 1, 
18(51, at Yellow Creek (now Middlesboro). Knox (now Bell) 
County. Ky.; attended the common schools and for a short 
time the academies at Tazewell and Mossy Creek, Tenn.; 
taught school, and while thus engaged read law; took the 
junior course in law in the Kentucky University in 1S79-S0 ; 
went to Washington in Septemljer, 18S2, from which time 
until June 80. lSS(j, he was an examiner and special ex- 
aminer in the Pension Bureau of the Interior Depaitment ; 
returned to Kentucky in 1.SS7 and in that year was elected 
to the Kentucky house of representatives, session of 1887-S8 ; 
was the Republican nominee for State treasurer in 1889, but 
was defeated by Hon. Stephen D. Sharp, the Democratic 
nominee ; was elected mayor of Middlesboro in November, 
l8'.);i for four years, which position he resigned to accept 
a seat in the Fifty-Fourth Congress ; was reelected to the 
Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Repulilican. receiving 22,404 votes, 
against 12,518 votes for J. D. Black. Democrat, and 4.587 
votes for John I). White, Independent. He represents the 
eleventh district of Kentucky, which has a population of 
187,481. and which comprises the seventeen counties of 
Adair. Bell, Casey, Clay, Clinton. Harlan, Knox, Laurel, 
Letcher. Leslie, Metcalfe, Owsley, Perry, Pulaski, Russell, 
Wayne, and Whitley. 

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WILLIAM CONNELL 



WILLIAM CONINELL 



William Connell. of Scranton. was born at Cape Breton, 
Nova Scotia. September 10, LS27, his parents being of 
Scotch and Irish descent; his education was self-won; 
wiien he was yet yonug. his parents moved to what is 
now Hazleton, Luzerne County. Pa., where he worked in 
the mines as a driver boy at 75 cents a day ; in 1856, 
having shown the ability to rise in life, he was placed in 
charge of the mines of the Susquehanna k Wyoming Val- 
ley Railroad <t Coal (^'ompany, with offices at Scranton ; 
in 1S70. the charter of that company lapsing, he purchased 
the plant with his savings and organized the hrm of 
William Connell & Co.; from this beginning he has devel- 
oped into one of the largest individual coal operators in 
the Wyoming coal region ; is president of the Third Na- 
tional Bank ; is at the head of or actively identified with 
the management of most of the industries and lai-ge com- 
mercial enterprises of Scranton. and has been prominent 
in charitable and religious work ; is a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church : in politics he has always 
been a Republican ; was a delegate to the Republican na- 
tional convention of 1896, and is a member of the Penn- 
sylvania Republican committee ; was elected to the 
Fifty-Fifth Congress, receiving 18,598 votes, against 10,741 
votes for Edward Merritield. Democrat, and 796 votes for 
H. J. Hockenbei'ry. Prohibitionist. He represents the 
eleventh district of Pennsylvania, which has a population 
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JAMES AUSTIN CONNOLLY 



James Austin Connolly, of SiDringfield, was born in 
Newark, N. J.. March 8, 184^ ; went to Ohio with his 
parents in 1850; has an academic education; was assistant 
clerk of Ohio senate 1858-59 ; was admitted to the bar in 
Ohio in 1861 and is a lawyer by profession; removed to 
Illinois in 1861 ; entered the I'nited States army in 1862 
as a private in the One Hundred and Twenty-Third Illinois 
Volunteers, and was afterwards captain, major, and brevet 
lieutenant-colonel ; served as a member of the Illinois 
house of representatives in 1873, 1874. and 1875; was 
United States attorney for the southern district of Illinois 
from 1876 to 1885 and again from ISSI) to 1898; was ap- 
pointed and confirmed Solicitor of the Treasury in 1886, 
but declined to accept ; ran for Congress in 1886, as a Re- 
publican, against W. M. Springer, Democrat, the district 
having 3,800 Democratic majority at the preceding elec- 
tion, and was defeated by less than 1,000; was nominated 
again m 1888. but declined to run; in 1894 he again ran 
against Mr. Springer, the district at the preceding election 
having 3,003 Democratic majority, and was elected to the 
Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as 
a Republican, receiving 23,813 votes, against 23,714 votes 
for B. F. Caldwell, Democrat, 217 votes for E. G. King, 
National Democrat, and 4S4 votes for Edmund ]\Iiller, 
Prohibitionist. He represents the seventeenth district of 
Illinois, which has a population of 158,780, and emliraces 
the five counties of Christian, Logan, Macon, Menard, and 
Sangamon. 




JAMES COONEY 



JAMES COONEY 



James Cooney, of Marshall, Mo., was born in Ireland in 
1848, and came to the United States with his family in 1'852 ; 
was educated in the public schools and at the State Univer- 
sity of Missouri : taught school for a few years after he left 
the university, and in 1875 located in Marshall. Mo., and 
engaged in the practice of law : in 1880 was elected to the 
office of probate judge of his county : in 1SS2. and again 
in 1884. was elected prosecuting attorney of his county ; 
was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, 
receiving 27,846 votes, against 21.772 votes for John P. 
Tracey, Republican. 2,287 votes for John R. Thomas, Popu- 
list, and 197 votes for Bond. Prohibitionist. He represents 
the seventh district of Missouri, which has a population of 
201,708, and embraces the eight counties of Benton, Boone, 
Greene, Hickory. Howard. Pettis. Polk, and Saline. 




HENRY A. COOPER 



HENRY ALLEN COOPER 



Henry Allen Cooper, of Racine, wa!> born in Wahvoith 
County, Wis. ; received a common-school and collegiate edu- 
cation ; graduated from the Northwestern l^niversit,y in 
1873 and from Union College of Law, Chicago, in 1875; is by 
profession a lawyer ; in 1880 was elected district attorney of 
Racine County, and was reelected without opposition in 1882 
and 1884 ; delegate to the national Republican convention of 
1884; menil)er of the l)oard of education of the city of 
Racine, 1886 and 1887 ; was a member of the State Senate 
1887-89 ; was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth 
Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a 
Republican, receiving 2S,235 votes, against 14.723 votes for 
J. L. Mahoney. Democrat, and 1,084 votes for G. W. White, 
Prohibitionist. He represents the first congressional district 
of Wisconsin, which has a population of 163.000. and em- 
braces the six counties of Green, Kenosha. Lafayette, Racine. 
Rock, and W^alworth. 





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SAM BRONSON COOPER 



Sam Bronson Cooper, of Woodville, was born in Cald- 
well County, Ky., May 30, 1850; removed with his parents 
to Texas the same year and located in Woodville, Tyler 
County, where he has resided since; his father died in 
1S53 ; his education was received at the common school 
of the town ; at sixteen years of a^e began clerking in a 
general store ; in 1871 read law in the office of Nicks & 
Hobby ; in January, 1S7"2, obtained license to practice law, 
and became a partner in the firm of Nicks, Hobby & 
Cooper ; was married in lS7o ; in 187C was elected county 
attorney of Tyler County; was reelected in 1878; in 1880 
was elected to the State senate from the first senatorial 
district; was I'eelected in 1882. and at the close of the 
session of the eighteenth legislature was elected president 
jira fniiporc of the senate ; in 1885 was appointed collector 
of internal revenue of the first district of Texas by Presi- 
dent Cleveland; was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty- 
Fourth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress 
as a Democrat, x-eceiving 25.198 votes, against 5,188 votes 
for J. M. Claiborne, Republican, and 12,822 votes for B. A. 
Calhoun, Populist. He reitresents the second congressional 
district of Texas, which has a population of 2l0.2o8. and 
which comprises the nineteen counties of Anderson, Ange- 
lina, Cherokee. Hardin. Harrison. Houston. Jasper. Jefferson. 
Liberty, Nacogdoches. Newton. Orange. Panola. Polk. Sa- 
bine. San Augustine, San Jacinto, Shelby, and Tyler. 




JOHN B. CORLISS 



JOHN B. CORLISS 



John B. Corliss, of Detroit, was born at Richford, Vt. ; 
was educated at the Vermont Methodist University ; studied 
law at the Columbian Law School, Washington, D. C, and 
graduated from that institution in 1S75; in September of 
the same year he settled in Detroit and engaged in the 
practice of law. which he has since continued ; was elected 
city attorney of Detroit in 18S1 and reelected in 18S3 ; 
during his four years' incumbency of the office of city 
attorney he prepared the first complete charter of Detroit, 
which was passed by the legislature in 1884 and is still the 
fundamental law of the municipality ; has always been 
active in Republican politics ; was elected to the Fifty- 
Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a 
Republican, receiving 23,638 votes, against 18,889 votes for 
Edwin Henderson. Democrat. He represents the first dis- 
trict of Michigan, which has a population of 173.841, and 
which embraces a part of Wayne County. 




ROBERT G. COUSINS 



ROBERT G. COUSINS 



Robert G. Cousins, of Tipton, was l)orii in Cedar County. 
Iowa, in iSoi) : graduated at Cornell. Iowa, in 1881 ; was 
admitted to the bar in 1882. and has been engaged in the 
practice of law since that time ; in 1886 was elected to 
the Iowa legislature, and was elected by the house of 
representatives as one of the prosecutors for the Brown 
impeachment, tried l)efore the senate during 1887 ; in 1888 
was elected prosecuting attorney and also presidential 
elector for the fifth congressional district ; was elected to 
the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected 
to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 
26,133 votes, against 18,765 votes for John R. Caldwell, Fu- 
sionist, and 364 votes for Laurie Tatum. Prohibitionist. 
He represents the fifth district of Iowa, wiiich has a popu- 
lation of 168.175. and which emltraces the seven counties 
of Benton, Cedar, Grundy, Jones, Linn, Marshall, and Tama. 




WILLIAM S. COWHERD 



WILLIAM STROTHER COWHERD 



William Strother Cowherd, of Kansas City, Mo., was 
born September 1, 1860. in Jacknon County, Mo.; was 
brought up in Lee's Summit, that State ; was educated at 
the public schools in the town of Lee's Summit and the 
University of Missouri ; graduated and took the degi'ee of 
A. B. at the university in 1881 and LL. B. in 1882 ; com- 
menced the practice of law in Kansas City in 1882 ; was 
appointed assistant prosecuting attorney of Jackson County 
in 1885, and served four years in that capacity ; was ap- 
pointed first assistant city counselor of Kansas City in 1890, 
and served for two years ; was elected mayor of Kansas City 
in 1892, and served one term of two years ; was elected 
to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, having also the 
indorsement of the Populist party, receiving 25,966 votes, 
against 21,806 votes for Jay H. Xeff. Kepublicau. He repre- 
sents the fifth congi'essional district of Missouri, which has 
a population of 190,694, and embraces the two counties of 
Jackson and Lafayette. 



NICHOLAS NICHOLS COX 



Nicholas Nichols Cox. of Franklin, was born in Bed- 
ford County, Tenn., January 6, 1S87 ; removed with his 
parents to the frontier of Texas when a small boy, and was 
brought up in the town of Seguin, near San Antonio ; was 
educated in the common schools ; pursued the study of law 
at the law school of Lebanon, Tenn., from which institution 
he graduated in 1858, and was licensed to practice at the 
saine time; was a Confederate colonel and served during 
most of the war with General Forrest ; after the war he 
located in Franklin, Williamson County, Tenn., where he 
has follow^ed his profession ever since, and at the same time 
has been engaged in farming; was an elector on the Breck- 
inridge and Lane ticket in 18(50; was elector on the Greeley 
ticket in LS72 ; Mr. Greeley having died before the college of 
electors met, he cast his vote for Hendricks, of Indiana, for 
President ; was elected to the Fifty-Second. Fifty-Third, and 
Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth 
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 15,434 votes, against 
10,744 votes for A. M. Hughes, Jr., Republican, and 1,7% 
votes for J. K. P. Blackburn. People's party. He represents 
the seventh district of Tennessee, wiiich has a population of 
153,846. and embraces the eight counties of Dickson, Giles, 
Hickman. Lawrence, Lewis, Maury, Wayne, and Williamson. 




JOHN W. CRANFORD 



JOHN WALTER CRANFORD 



John Walter Cranford, of Sulphur Springs, Tex., was 
born near (jrove Hill, Clark County. Ala., about thirty- 
six years ago ; was educated in the best high schools of 
Alabama, and finished his education under a private 
tutor; removed from Alabama to Texas about eighteen 
years ago. and located at his present place of residence ; 
studied law under Judge J. K. Milam and Sam J. Hunter, 
associate justice of the court of civil appeals of Texas ; 
upon attaining his majority was admitted to the bar and 
soon thereafter became the junior member of the law 
firm of Hunter, Putnam k Cranford ; the senior membei'S 
of the firm having gone on the bench, he became the suc- 
cessor of the firm and has ever since been actively engaged 
in the practice: was elected to the State senate in 1.S8S 
for a term of four years, and reelected in 1892, although 
he did not offer as a candidate for reelection ; served in 
the senate as chairman of judiciary committee No. 1, 
and was elected president jiro fcjiqxur of the twenty- 
second senate, being the youngest member ever elected 
to that position : was a candidate for the Democratic 
nomination for Congress in 189(5. and cai-ried nine out of 
the eleven counties composing the fourth congressional dis- 
trict over Hon. James G. Dudley, chairman of the Demo- 
cratic executive committee of Texas, and was elected to 
the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, after one of the 
hottest joint canvasses ever known in the State, receiving 
21,187 votes, against J. H. ("Cyclone") Davis. Populist. 
who received 13.703 votes, and M. W. Johnson, "Gold 
Standard Democrat," who received 3,570 votes. He repre- 
.sents the fourth congressional district of Texas, which 
has a population of 170.001, and which embraces the 
eleven counties of Bowie. Camp, Cass, Delta. Franklin. 
Hopkins, Lamar. Marion. Morris. Red River, and Titus. 




ROUSSEAU O. CRUMP 



ROUSSEAU O. CRUMP 



Rousseau 0. Crump, of West Bay City, was born in 
Pittsford, Monroe County, N. Y.. May 20. 1.S43, and received 
his education in the Pittsford and Rochester schools ; his 
parents were of English birth and came to the United 
States in 1842, settling in Pittsford. N. Y.; he has always 
followed the lumber business ; established his first home 
in Plainwell, Mich., living there from July, 1869, until 
December, 1872, when he moved back to Rochester, N. Y., 
and in June, 1881, while making a tour of the lakes and 
northern Michigan, stopped in Bay City ; impressed with 
the business push and energy of the two Bay Cities, he 
decided to locate there, and built his first mill in Septem- 
ber, 1881 ; in the fall of 1883 he purchased his partner's 
interest in the business, and in February, 1884, the cor- 
poration of the Crump's Manufacturing Company was 
formed by him, and is now one of the largest box and 
package manufacturing plants in the State ; is an active 
Mason, having been one of the first trustees of the Masonic 
Temple Association of Bay City, Mich. ; is a member of 
the Wenona Lodge, Blanchard Chapter. Bay City Com- 
mandery, the Michigan Sovereign Consistory of Detroit, 
and Moslem Temple ; also a member of the Ancient Order 
of United Workmen, Royal Arcanum, and Knights of 
Pythias ; in politics he is a Republican of the stalwart 
type ; cast his first vote for Lincoln ; has served West Bay 
City as alderman for four years, and in the spring of 1H92 
was nominated and elected mayor of West Bay City and 
was reelected in 1894 ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth 



ROUSSEAU O. CRUMP 

Congress as a Repuljlican. receiving 16.304 votes, against 
12,456 votes for W. L. Churchill, Democrat, 2,180 votes for 
Alex. Forsythe, Populist, and 96 votes scattering. Reelected 
to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 19,535 
votes, against 17,536 votes for Chas. S. Hampton, Fusion- 
ist, and reelected to the Fifty-Sixth Congress as a Repub- 
lican, receiving a majority over Judge Robt. J. Kelly. 
Fusionist, of 3,856, Mr. Crump being the only member who 
ever was elected to represent this district, of either party, 
for the third term. The tenth district had always been 
considered hopelessly Democratic until his victory in 1894. 
when his plurality over one of the most prominent and 
wealthy lumbermen in the district was 8,848, 




EDGAR D. CRUMPACKER 



EDGAR D. CRUMPACKER 



Edgar D. Crumpacker, of Valparaiso, Ind., was born 
May 27. 1S51. in Laporte County, Ind. ; was educated in 
the common schools and at the Valparaiso Academy ; was 
admitted to the bar in Iy7(i. and has been in the practice 
of law at Valparaiso, Ind., since ; was prosecuting attorney 
for the thirty-first judicial district of Indiana from 1884 to 
1888; served as appellate judge in the State of Indiana, 
by appointment under Governor Hovey. from March. 1S'.)1. 
to January 1. 181);-] ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Con- 
gress a.s a Republican, receiving 28,259 votes, against 
23,120 votes cast for Hon. Martin E. Krueger. his Demo- 
cratic-Populistic-Prohibitionist opponent. He represents 
the tenth congressional district of Indiana, which has a 
population of 169.978, and which embraces the nine coun- 
ties of Benton, Jasper. Lake. Laporte, Newton, Porter, 
Tippecanoe, Warren, and White. 




AMOS J. CUMMINGS 



AMOS J. CUMMINGS 



Amos J. Cummings, of New York City, was born in Conk- 
ling, Broome County, N. Y., May 15, 1841 ; received a 
common-school education ; entered a printing office as an 
apprentice when twelve years of age, and has set type in 
nearly every State in the Union ; was a boy with Walker 
in the last invasion of Nicaragua ; was sergeant-major in 
the Twenty-Sixth New Jersey Kegiment of Infantry, second 
brigade, second division, sixth corps. Army of the Potomac ; 
received the congressional medal of honor for gallantry on 
the battlefield ; was a delegate to the Democratic national 
convention in 1892 and 1896 ; has filled editorial positions 
on the New York Trihiaic, under Horace Greeley, on the 
New York Sim, New York E.rpress. and was editor of the 
Erfiiliif/ Sun when elected to the Fiftieth Congress ; declined 
a renomination, preferring to give his whole attention to 
editorial work ; was elected to the Fifty-First Congress to 
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel Sullivan 
Cox ; was elected to the Fifty-Second. Fifty-Third, and 
Fifty-Fourth Congresses and was reelected to the i'ifty-Fifth 
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 17,446 votes, against 
14,245 votes for Clarence W. Meade, Republican. 512 votes 
for Calvin Tomkins, National Democrat. 411 votes for 
William Ruddy. Socialist, and I'iS) votes for Fletcher Ham- 
lin, Independent. He represents the tenth congressional 
district of New York, which has a population of 156.537. and 
which embraces the ninth, thirteenth, and fifteenth assembly 
districts of the county of New York. 




CHARLES CURTIS 



CHARLES CURTIS 



Charles Curtis, of Topeka. was horn in what is known 
as North Topeka, Shawnee County, Kan.. January 25, 1860; 
received his education in the common schools of the city 
of Topeka; studied law with A. H. Case. Esq.. at Topeka; 
was admitted to the bar in 18N1 ; entered into a partner- 
ship with Mr. Case in IHSI and remained with him until 
1884 ; was elected county attorney of Shawnee County in 
1884 for a term of tw^o years and was reelected in 1SS6; 
was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses 
and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, 
receiving 26,643 votes, against 25,889 votes for John Mad- 
den, Fusion candidate. He represents the fourth congres- 
sional district of Kansas, which has a population of 214,544, 
and which embraces the eleven counties of Butler, Chase, 
Coffey, Greenwood. Lyon. Marion, Morris, Osage, Shawnee, 
Wabaunsee, and Woodson. 




GEORGE M. CURTIS 



GEORGE MARTIN CURTIS 



George Martin Curtis, Representative from the second 
district of Iowa, was born on a farm near Oxford, Chen- 
ango County, N. Y., April 1, 1S44, of English ancestry. 
His father, John S. Curtis, a farmer in moderate cir- 
cumstances, and his mother were born at Oxford also. 
With the strong current of Western emigration which 
had set in, he removed with his parents to Ogle County, 
Illinois, in 1856. Reared on a farm, he was educated in the 
common schools, supplemented by a course at the Rock 
River Seminary, at Mount Morris. 111. During the winters 
of 1861-62 and 186B 64 he taught a country school, 
earning his first money in such capacity. The country 
was sparsely settled at this time, the winters were ex- 
tremely rigorous, and the country school-teacher was 
compelled to " board around " at the widely separated 
homes of the various patrons, his compensation being 
$15 per month. At the age of twenty he enlisted in the 
Union army in the War of the Rebellion, but was rejected 
on physical grounds, after which, during 1864-65, he 
engaged as a mercantile clerk at Rochelle, 111., and subse- 
quently conducted a retail coal business at Cortland, 111. 
In 1867 he located at Clinton, Iowa, for the purpose 
of engaging in the manufacture of sash, doors, blinds, 
and interior finishing. Associated with his brother, Charles 
F. Curtis, and J. E. Carpenter, under the firm name of 
Curtis Bros. & Co., business was begun on a small scale. 
From this small beginning the enter^jrise has developed 
rapidly. Allied with the Clinton concern now are the 



GEORGE MARTIN CURTIS 

Curtis k Yale Co.. Wasan, Wis., and Minneapolis. Minn., 
and the Curtis k Bartlett Co., Lincoln. Neb., with branch 
distributing houses at Sioux City, Iowa, and Milwaukee, 
Wis. He has always been a Republican, and his hrst entry 
into politics was in 1888, when he w^as elected to the 
Iowa State legislature from Clinton County, overcoming 
a normal Democratic majority of 2,200. He was a dele- 
gate to the Repul)lican national convention in 1892. In 
1894 he was tendered the nomination for Congress by the 
Republicans, and then followed a campaign of remarkable 
vigor against what seemed almost overwhelming odds, 
the district for nearly twenty successive years having 
been carried by the Democrats with majorities ranging 
from 7,000 to 10.000. The result was the redeeming of 
what had long been termed the "'Orphan District" of Iowa 
by a margin of 486 votes. In 1896 he was unanimously 
renominated and was reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Con- 
gress, receiving 23.202 votes, against 19.882 votes for 
Alfred Hurst, Democrat. 639 votes for Charles A. Lloyd, 
Populist, and 230 votes for N. J. Kremer. Socialist Lalior. 
In March. 1898, he published a letter declining to have 
his name considered in connection with a renomination 
to the Fifty-Sixth Congress, giving as a reason the pressure 
of business affairs. Notwithstanding this public declina- 
tion, the delegates to the convention from the six counties 
in the district were unanimous for his selection, and a 
second communication, addressed to the delegates per- 
sonally, was deemed advisable just prior to the convention. 
In 1872, Mr. Curtis married Miss Ettie L. Lewis, to 
whom were born two children, George L., in 1878, and 
Eugene J., in 1884, both of whom are living. Mr. Curtis 
is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and is a promi- 
nent Mason, having attained to the thirty-second degree in 
1871. He has for many years held high official positions 
in Scottish Rite Masonry. 




JOHN DALZELL 



JOHN DALZELL 



John Dalzell. of Pitt.sl)nrg, was born in New York 
City, April 11), 1845; removed to Pittsburg in 1847; re- 
ceived a common-school and collegiate education, graduat- 
ing from Yale College in the class of 18(55 ; studied law, 
and was admitted to the bar in February, 1867 ; has since 
practiced his profession ; at the time of his election was, 
and for years had been, one of the attorneys for the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad Company and for all its Western lines ; 
was also attorney for many corporations in Allegheny 
County ; never held any office until he was elected to the 
Fiftieth Congress; was elected to the Fifty-First, Fifty- 
Second, Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses, and 
reelected to the Fifty-Fifth C-ongress as a Republican, 
receiving 28,8()0 votes, against 1l'.788 votes for John F. 
Miller. Bryan Democrat, and 166 votes for Edwin Z. Smith, 
Jeffersonian Democrat. He represents the twenty-second 
district of Pennsylvania, which has a population of 279,- 
355, and which embraces the city of Pittsliurg and all 
townships and l)oroughs lying between the Monongahela 
and Allegheny Rivers, except the borough of McKeesport 
and l)oroughs and townships lying between the Youghio- 
gheny and Monongahela Rivers, in the county of Alle- 
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LORENZO DANFORD 



LORENZO DANFORD 



Lorenzo Danford, of St. Clairsville, was born in Belmont 
County, Ohio. October 18, 1S29 ; lived on a farm until man- 
hood : received a common-school education and attended 
college at Waynesburg, Pa., two years; was admitted to 
the bar at St. Clairsville, Ohio, in September. 1S54 ; was 
prosecuting attorney of Belmont County from 1857 to 1861, 
when he resigned and went into the Union army, in the 
Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in April of that year, 
and served as private, lieutenant, and captain until August, 
1864 ; was a Bepublican member of the electoral college 
of Ohio in 1864 and in 18S)2. and in the latter year was 
president of the college : was a memlier of the Forty-Third. 
Forty-Fourth. Forty-Fifth, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses, and 
reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Bepublican, re- 
ceiving 21.690 votes, against 18.632 votes for H. H. McFad- 
den. Free-Silver Democrat. He represents the sixteenth 
congressional district of Ohio, which lias a population of 
160.899, and which embraces the five counties of Belmont, 
Carroll, Harrison. Jefferson, and Monroe. 




S. A DAVENPORT 



S. A. DAVENPORT 



S. A. Davenport, of Erie, was horn January 15, 1834. 
in Schuyler County, near Watkin.s. in the State of New 
York : since 1S31) has lived in Erie, Eiie County, Pa. ; was 
educated at the Erie Academy, read law. and graduated 
at the Harvard Law University in 185") ; in 18()U was elected 
district attorney for the county of Erie, and is now a prac- 
ticing attorney; in 1888 was elected district delegate to the 
Ivepublican national convention at Chicago ; in 1892 was 
elected one of the delegates at large to the national Repub- 
lican convention at Minneapolis ; was elected to the Fifty- 
Fifth Congress from the State at large by a majority of 
293,445. 




ROBERT C. DAVEY 



ROBERT C. DAVEY 



Robert C. Davey. of New Orleans, was born in that 
city October 22. lSo3 ; received his early education in the 
schools of his native city ; entered St. Vincent's College, 
Cape Girardeau, Mo., in 1861), and graduated in 1871 : was 
elected a member of the State senate December. 1871), and 
reelected April. 1884, and again elected in April, 181)2 ; was 
president [iro fciitpojr of the senate during the sessions of 
1884 and 1886 ; was elected judge of the first recorder's 
court November. 1880. reelected November, 1882, reelected 
April 1884. and served until May, 1888; was defeated for 
mayor of the city of New Orleans in April. 1888 : was 
elected to the Fifty-Third C!ongress. positively declined re- 
nomination for the Fifty-Fourth Congress, and was elected 
to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 10,- 
261) votes, against 5.235 votes for James Legendre, Sugar 
P. Republican, and l.:!44 votes for F. X. Wicker, Republi- 
can. He represents the second congressional district of 
Louisiana, which has a population of 152,025. and which 
eml)races the first, second, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thir- 
teenth, fourteenth, sixteentii. and seventeenth wards of the 
city of New Orleans, and parishes of Jefferson. St. Charles, 
St. James, and St. John the Baptist. 




JAMES H. DAVIDSON 



JAMES H. DAVIDSON 



James H. Davidson, of Oshkosh. was born June 18, 1858, 
in Colchester, Delaware County, N. Y.; received a common- 
school education in the pulJic schools and at Walton 
(N. Y.) Academy; was a teacher in the public schools of 
Delaware and Sullivan Counties, N. Y.. for several years, 
and for one year was engaged at the same occupation at 
Princeton. Green Lake County, Wis.; began the study of 
law at Walton, N. Y., in the oftice of Fancher & Sevvell, 
and graduated from the Albany Law School, as president 
of the class, in 1884 ; subsequently removed to Green Lake 
County, Wis., and commenced the practice of law at Prince- 
ton, in that county, in 18S7; was elected district attorney 
of Green Lake County in 1888, and in 1890 was chosen 
chairman of the Kepublican congressional committee for 
the sixth district of Wisconsin, and continued in that 
position until nominated for the Fifty-Fifth Congress ; 
January 1, 1892, removed to Oshkosh, Wis., and became a 
member of the law" firm of Thompson. Harshaw & David- 
son, which partnership continued for three years, when he 
withdrew and continued the practice alone ; in May, 1895, 
he was appointed city attorney of that city for a term of 
two years ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a 
Kepublican, receiving 26.(i49 votes, against 18,944 votes for 
William F. ({ruenewald. Democrat, and (526 votes for James 
S. Thompson, Prohibitionist. He represents the sixth con- 
gressional district of Wisconsin, which has a population of 
187,001, and which embraces the seven counties of Calumet, 
Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Manitowoc. Marquette, Waushara, 
and Winnebago. 




ROBERT W. DAVIS 



ROBERT W. DAVIS 



Robert W. Davis, of Florida, was born in Georgia on 
the 15th of March. 1841). His father was Rev. Jesse M. 
Davis, a Baptist minister, who was loved and venerated by 
all who knew him. He attended the common schools of 
his native State, but, the course of his young life having 
been turned by the events of secession and the great Civil 
War which followed he never received a collegiate educa- 
tion. At fourteen years of age he entered the Confederate 
army, and. during the last two years of this terrible struggle, 
he followed the ill-fated flag of the Southern Confederacy, 
and was one of the ragged and footsore little band which 
Sherman pressed back before him on his famous and his- 
torical " March to the Sea." He sun-endered with General 
Joseph E. Johnston at Greensboro, N. C. at the close of the 
war. His father's means and his own patrimony having 
been swept away by the results of the war, Mr. Davis 
went to work as an ordinary laborer on his fathers farm, 
where he remained for several years. An opportunity was 
then offered him to study law, and at nineteen he entered 
the law office of a prominent lawyer, where he prepared 
himself for the practice, and at twenty years of age was 
admitted to the bar. Soon after his admission, and before 
he was yet of age. he married j\Iiss Mai'ie Twiggs Mercer, 
daughter of Dr. Leonidas B. Mercer, a prominent planter 
and distinguished physician and scientist of southwestern 
Georgia. To them foui- children have been born. — Walter 
M. Davis, a rising lawyer, of Florida: Jes.sie Lee Davis 



ROBERT ir. DAIVS 

(now Mrs. A. S. Willard). Rosa Standifer Davis (now Mrs. 
G. B. Garwood), and Ellen Douglass Davis. Mr. Davis 
moved to Florida in 1S79, and located first at Gainesville. 
He soon changed his residence to Green Cove Springs, 
in Clay County, and, by the people of this county, he was 
shortly elected to the State legislature. He was made 
speaker of the Florida house of representatives (then called 
assembly) in 18S5. and presided over the house during that 
important and pleasant session. At the close of this session 
he removed to Palatka where he has since resided. As a 
lawyer he has engaged in many of the most noted crim- 
inal cases ever tried in the State, and for ten years prior 
to his election to Congress he was counsel for one of the 
largest railroad systems in Florida. This connection he 
resigned when he became the servant of the people. He 
was balloted for governor at the State convention, held 
in St. Augustine in ISSS, but, though he had a large fol- 
lowing and at times led all other candidates, he failed to 
receive the nomination. In LSDG he was nominated by 
the Democrats of the second congressional district as their 
candidate for Congress, and, after a heated contest in that 
memorable campaign, he was elected over four competitors, 
by a plurality of 5,594. Thus he became a member of the 
Fifty-Fifth, now about to pass into history as the "War 
Congress." Mr. Davis in LS9S was renominated by his pai-ty 
without opposition, and has been reelected by an increased 
majority. He will, therefore, be a member of the Fifty- 
Sixth Congress. He repi-esents the second district, which 
has a population of 202,792, and embraces the counties of 
Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Brevard, Clay, Columbia, Dade, 
Duval, Hamilton, Lake, Madison, Maiion, Nassau, Orange, 
Osceola, Putnam, St. Johns, Sumter, Suwannee, and Volusia. 



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GEORGE M. DAVISON 



GEORGE MOSBY DAVISON 



George Mosby Davison, of Stanford, was born in Stan- 
ford, Lincoln County, Ky., March 23, 1856 ; educated in the 
common schools. Stanford Academy, and private school of 
Prof. J. B. Myers ; studied law, and was admitted to the 
bar in 187^ ; in 1881 was appointed to a position in the in- 
ternal revenue service, which he held until 1885; in 1886 
was appointed master of chancery, or commissioner, of the 
Lincoln circuit court, and resigned in iSDo; in 1SS7 was 
elected to the legislature from Lincoln ('ounty as a Repub- 
lican, serving on the committees of revenue and taxation, 
civil codes, and general statutes : was Repuldican candi- 
date for elector for the eighth district in ISSS. and again 
in 1892: was elected judge of the Lincoln County court in 
1894 as a Repul)lican ; for ten consecutive years has been 
chairman of the Lincoln County Republican committee, 
and was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, 
receiving 18,110 votes, against 15.629 votes for John B. 
Thompson, of Harrodsburg. Democrat. He represents the 
eighth congressional district of Kentucky, having a popu- 
lation of 142.671. and embracing the eleven counties of 
Anderson. Boyle, Garrard. Jackson. Jessamine. Lincoln, 
Madison, Mercer, Rockcastle. Shelby, and Spencer. 




ALSTON G. DAYTON 



ALSTON GORDON DAYTON 



Alston Gordon Dayton, of Philippi. was born in Philippi, 
Va. (now West Virginia), October IS, 1857 ; graduated from 
the University of West Virginia in June. 1878 : studied law, 
and was admitted to the bar October 18. 1878. and has de- 
voted himself to the pi-actice of his profession since ; in 1879 
was appointed to fill out an unexpired term as prosecuting 
attorney of Upshur County. W. Va. : was elected and served 
as prosecuting attorney of Barl)our ('ounty for a four-year 
term beginning January 1. 1884; was elected to the Fifty- 
Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Repub- 
lican, receiving 25,500 votes, against 28.249 votes for William 
G. Brow^n, Fusionist. He represents the second congres- 
sional district of West Virginia, which has a population of 
187,305, and embraces the fifteen counties of Barbour. Berke- 
ley. Grant, Hampshire. Hardy. Jefferson. Marion. Mineral. 
Monongalia. ^lorgan, Pendleton, Preston, Kandolph, Taylor, 
and Tucker. 




DAVID A. DE ARMOND 



DAVID A. DE ARMOND 



David A. De Armond, of Butler, was born in Blair 
County. Pa., March 18, 1S44 ; was brought up on a farm ; 
educated in the common schools and at Williamsport 
Dickinson Seminary ; was presidential elector in 1884 ; 
was State senator, circuit judge, and Missouri supreme 
court commissioner ; was elected to the Fifty-Second, 
Fifty-Third, and Fifty-Fourth Congresses, and reelected to 
the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 22,524 
votes, against 16,722 votes for Frank V. Hamilton, Repub- 
lican, 2,()06 votes for H. B. Linton. Populist, and 229 votes 
for William M. Godwin, Prohibitionist. He represents 
the second district of Missouri, which has a population of 
179,344, and which embraces the eight counties of Carroll, 
Chariton, Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Monroe, Randolph, and 
Sullivan. 




R. C. DE GRAFFENRIED 



R. C. DE GRAFFENRIED 



R. C. De Graffenried, of Longview, was born in Frank- 
lin. Tenn., in the year 185".) ; attended the academic .school 
of that place until thirteen years old, and then went to 
the University of Tennessee, and graduated, after taking 
the four years' course, at the age of nineteen ; graduated 
from the Lebanon Law School at the age of twenty ; a 
graduate of the Lebanon Law School having the right to 
practice law before majority, he commenced the law prac- 
tice immediately at Franklin ; removed to Chattanooga, 
where he practiced law for one year, and then removed 
to Texas ; helped to build the Texas and Pacific Eailvvay, 
and afterwards was assistant fuel agent and brakeman on 
that road ; in 18S3 resumed the practice of his profession 
at Longview. Tex.: was elected county attorney and re- 
signed two months afterwards; in 1S,SS was elector on the 
Democratic ticket ; made the race for Congress in 1S90 
with Hon. C. B. Kilgore and ex-(iovernor Hultliard as 
opponents, and was lieaten ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth 
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 21.208 votes, against 
16,351 votes for W. E. Farmer, Populist. He represents 
the third congressional district of Texas, which has a pop- 
ulation of 138,188, and which embraces the ten counties of 
Gregg, Henderson. Hunt, Hains, Rockwall, Rusk, Smith, 
Upshur, Van Zandt, and Wood. 




MARION DE VRIES 



MARION DE VRIES 



Marion De Vries, of Stockton. San Joaquin County, 
Cal., was born near Woodbridge, in said county, August 15, 
1865 ; was educated in the iiublic schools of said county 
until fifteen years of age, at which time he entered San 
Joaquin Valley College, at Woodliridge. which school he 
attended and graduated from in 188(5, having conferred 
upon him there the degree of Ph. B.; he then entered the 
University of Michigan, law department, whence he gradu- 
ated in 1888. with degree of LL. B.; was admitted to the 
supreme court of ^Michigan in 1887 and of California in the 
same year; commenced the practice of law in Stockton. 
January 1. 1881). with John B. Hall; August 1. 1889, formed 
a copartnership with W. B. Nutter, which association still 
exists ; under Mr. Nutter acted as assistant district attorney 
for San Joaquin County from January. 1893, to February, 
1897 ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Demo- 
crat, indorsed by the People's party, receiving 24.4o4 votes, 
against 18,61 o for Johnson, Republican, and 974 votes for 
Frank E. Coulter. Prohibitionist. He represents the second 
congressional district of California, which has a population 
of 155,998, and embraces the fifteen counties of Alpine, 
Amador. Butte, Calaveras. Eldorado. Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, 
Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Sutter, Tuolumne, 
and Yuba. 




CHARLES DICK 



CHARLES DICK 



Charles Dick, of Akron, lawyer, was born at Akron, 
Ohio, November 3, 1858; was elected auditor of Summit 
County in 188(), serving two terms, and upon the death of 
Stephen A. Northway in 1898 w^as elected to represent the 
nineteenth Ohio district in Congress. He represents the 
nineteenth congressional district of Ohio, which has a popu- 
lation of 1S1.474. and which embraces the five counties 
of Ashtabula, Geauga, Portage, Summit, and Trumbull. 




NELSON DINGLEY 



NELSON DINGLEY 



Nelson Dingley. of Lewiston, was born at Durham, 
Androscoggin County, Me., February 15, 1832 ; graduated at 
Dartmouth College in the class of 1855 ; studied law and was 
admitted to the bar, but left the profession to become 
proprietor and editor of the Lewiston (Me.) Journal, daily 
and weekly, in 1856, and still maintains that connection ; was 
a member of the State house of I'epresentatives in 1862, 1863, 
1864, 1865, 1868, and 1873 ; was speaker of the State house of 
representatives in 1863 and 1864 ; was governor of Maine in 
1874-75 ; received the degree of LL. D. from Bates College in 
1874 and from Dartmouth College in 1894 : was a delegate to 
the national Republican convention in 1876 ; was elected 
to the Forty-Seventh Congress as a Republican at a special 
election on the 12th of September. 1881. to All the vacancy 
caused by the election of Hon. William P. Frye to the 
United States Senate ; was reelected a Representative at 
Large to the Forty-Eighth Congress ; was elected to the 
Forty-Ninth. Fiftieth, Fifty-First, Fifty-Second, Fifty-Third, 
and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fiftli 
Congress as a Republican, receiving 22.400 votes, again.st 
8,424 votes for Atwood Leven.saler, Democrat, 1,094 votes for 
Chai'les E. Allen, Populist. 457 votes for Edward R. Ogier, 
Prohibitionist, and 33 votes scattering. He represents the 
second congressional district of Maine, which has a popu- 
lation of 169,528. and which embraces the six counties 
of Androscoggin, Franklin. Knox. Lincoln, Oxford, and 
Sagadahoc. 




HUGH A. DINSMORE 



HUGH ANDERSON DINSMORE 



Hugh Anderson Dinsmore, of Fayetteville. was born in 
Benton County, Ark., December 24, 1850 ; was educated in 
private schools in Benton and Washington counties; studied 
law at Bentonville under Samuel N. Elliott; in April. 1S73, 
was appointed by the governor clerk of the circuit court 
for Benton County, and served in that office until the 
autumn of 1874, when he was admitted to the bar; in 
April, 1875, he moved from his native county of Benton 
to Fayetteville, where he has since resided, and engaged 
in the practice of law ; in September. 1S7S, he was elected 
prosecuting attorney of the fourth judicial district of 
Arkansas ; was reelected in 1880, and again without oppo- 
sition in 1882 ; was chosen a presidential elector in 1884 
on the Democratic ticket, and voted for Cleveland and 
Hendricks ; in January, 1887, he was appointed by Pres- 
ident Cleveland to be minister resident and consul-general 
of the United States in the Kingdom of Korea, and served 
in that capacity until May 25, 1890. when he was relieved 
by Mr. Augustine Heard, appointed by President Harri- 
son ; was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth 
Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as 
a Democrat, receiving 17,566 votes, against 9.087 votes 
for W. H. Neal, Republican. He represents the fifth con- 
gressional district of Arkansas, which has a population 
of 197,942, and which embraces the counties of Benton, 
Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Faulkner, Madison, Newton, 
Searcy, Van Buren, and Washington. 




ALEXANDER M. DOCKERY 



ALEXANDER MONROE DOCKERY 



Alexander Monroe Dockery. of (Tallatiu. was born in 
Daviess County, Mo., February 11, 1845 ; attended the 
common schools, completing his education at Macon Acad- 
emy, Macon, Mo.; studied medicine and graduated at the 
yt. Louis Medical College in March. 1865 : also attended 
lectures at Bellevue College. New York City, and Jefferson 
Medical College. Philadelphia, during the winter of 1865-06 ; 
practiced medicine at Chillicothe, Mo., until January. 1874, 
serving several yeai-s as county physician of Livingston 
County; in March. 1874. abandoned the practice of medi- 
cine and removed to Gallatin. Mo., and assisted in organ- 
izing the Farmers' Exchange Bank, of which organization 
he was cashier until elected to Congress ; was one of the 
curators of the L^niversity of Missouri from 1872 to 1882, 
and in 1870. 1871. and 1872 president of the board of edu- 
cation of Chillicothe. Mo.; was chairman of the congres- 
sional committee of his district ; was a member of the 
city council of Grallatin for the five years previous to 
April. 1883. serving the last two years as mayor, elected 
without opposition ; was chairman of the Democratic >State 
convention in 1886 ; was elected to the Forty-Eighth, 
Forty-Ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-First. I'ifty-Second. Fifty-Third, 
and Fifty-Fourth Congresses, and reelected to the Fifty- 
Fifth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 23,952 votes, 
against 18,634 votes for H. G. Orton, Republican, and 2,164 
votes for Hardin Steele. Populist. He represents the third 
congressional district of Missouri, which has a population 
of 174,726, and embraces the ten counties of Caldwell, 
Clay, Clinton, Daviess, Dekalb, Gentry, Harrison. Mercer, 
Ray. and Worth. 




JONATHAN P. DOLLIVER 



JONATHAN P. DOLLIVER 



Jonathan P. Dolliver, of Fort Dodge, was born near 
Kingwood, Preston County, Va. (now West Virginia). Feb- 
ruary 6, 1858; graduated in 1S75 from the West Virginia 
University; was admitted to the bar in 1878; never held 
any political ofKce until elected to the Fifty-First Congress; 
was elected to the Fifty-Second, Fifty-Third, and Fifty- 
Fourth Congresses and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress 
as a Kepublican. receiving 33.528 votes, against 22,555 votes 
for J. B. Romans. Fusionist, and 348 votes for M. W. Atwood, 
Prohibitionist. He represents the tenth congressional dis- 
trict of Iowa, which has a population of 188,346. and which 
embraces the fourteen counties of Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, 
Crawford. Emmet. Greene. Hamilton, Hancock. Humboldt, 
Kossuth. Palo Alto. Pocahontas. Webster, and Winnebago. 




CHARLES P. DORR 



CHARLES P. DORR 



Charles P. Dorr, of Addison, W. Va., was born August 
12. 1S52. in Monroe County. Ohio; was educated in the 
common schools, and after admission to the courts of Ohio 
began the practice of law in West Virginia in 1874, where he 
has since resided ; was elected a member of the West Vir- 
ginia house of delegates from the fourth delegate district in 
18S4 and again in 1S8S, and was chosen sergeant-at-arms of 
that body in the intervening session of 1S,S7; was elected 
to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 2'.).()(i(» 
votes, against 26.029 votes for ex-Gov. E. Willis Wilson, the 
Democratic nominee. He represents the third congressional 
district of West Vii-ginia. which has a population of 202,289. 
and which embraces the sixteen counties of Boone. Clay, 
Fayette, Greenbrier. Kanawha. Logan, McDowell. Mercer, 
Monroe. Nicholas, Pocahontas, lialeigh. Summers, Upshur, 
Webster, and Wyoming. 




BLACKBURN B. DOVENER 



BLACKBURN BARRETT DOVENER 



Blackburn Barrett Dovener, of Wheeling, was born 
in Caliell County. Va. (now West Virginia). April 20. 184-2; 
raised a company of loyal N'irginians and served in the 
United States volunteer infantry during the war ; studied 
law in the office of Hon. George 0. Davenport, of Wheel- 
ing : was admitted to the bar in 1S78. and has practiced 
law in Wheeling ever since ; was elected as a repi'esenta- 
tive of Ohio (Jounty in the legislature of 1SS3 ; was the 
Eepnblican candidate for Congress in the first district in 
1892, but was defeated by John 0. Pendleton. Democrat, 
who was elected by 2(l(i majority ; was elected to the 
Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as 
a Republican, receiving 25.231 votes, against 21,472 votes 
for W. W. Arnett. Democrat. He represents the first con- 
gressional district of West Virginia, which has a popula- 
tion of 177,840. and which embraces the eleven counties 
of Braxton, Brooke, Doddridge, Cilmer, Hancock. Harrison, 
Lewis, Marshall, Ohio, Tyler, and Wetzel. 




EDMUND H. DRIGGS 



EDMUND HOPE DRIGGS 



Edmund Hope Driggs. of Brooklyn, was born in Brooklyn 
May 2, 18()-") ; was educated at Adelphi College, Brooklyn, 
and is by profession a tire insurance surveyor : is of Rev- 
olutionary stock, tw^o of his ancestors having served in the 
Revolutionary War. one as a captain, the other as a sur- 
geon of the Connecticut militia ; was elected to the Fifty- 
Fifth Congress as a Democrat November 2, 1897, to take 
the place of Francis H. Wilson, resigned, receiving 16.S2() 
votes, against 14,603 votes for William A. Prendergast. Re- 
publican, and 3,036 votes for Horatio C. King. Independent 
Democrat. He represents the third congressional district 
of New York, which has a population of 174,741, and em- 
braces the third, fourth, ninth, tenth, twenty-second, and 
twenty-third wards of the city of Brooklyn, and tlie town 
of Flatbush. 




FRANK M. EDDY 



FRANK IVl. EDDY 



Frank M. Eddy, of (Tleiiwood. was born in Pleasant 
Grove. Minn.. April 1, 185(5. and is the first representative 
of Minnesota who is a native of that State; in 1860 he 
removed to Iowa with his parents, and in l.S(i8 he returned 
to Minnesota, residing at Elmira. Olmsted County, until 
1867. when he removed to Pope County ; in 1874 he re- 
turned to OluLsted County, where he attended school until 
1878, working in a brickyard during vacations to procure 
funds to pay his expenses ; he afterwards taught one term 
of district school in Fillmore County, one term at Vicks- 
burg, Renville County, and in the winter of 1879-80 re- 
turned to Pope County, where he taught school for three 
years ; in 18So he entered the employment of the Northern 
Pacific Railroad Company as a '"cruiser," or land examiner ; 
his political career commenced in 1884. when he was 
elected clerk of the district court of Pope County, and he 
has held this position, also that of court reporter of the 
sixteenth judicial district, continuously ever since ; was 
elected to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty- 
Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 27.264 votes, 
against 24.917 votes for E. E. Lemmen, Fusionist. He 
I'epresents the seventh congressional district of Minnesota, 
which has a population of 185,983, and embraces the 
eighteen counties of Becker, Bigstone, Clay, Douglas. Grant, 
Kandiyohi, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Ottertail, Polk, Pope, 
Red Lake, Roseau, Stevens, Swift, Traverse, and Wilkin. 




WILLIAM ELLIOTT 



WILLIAM ELLIOTT 



William Elliott, of Beaufort, was born in Beaufort, 
S. C, September 3, 1838 ; was educated at Beaufort ("ollege. 
Harvard University, and the University of Virginia : was 
admitted to the bar at Charleston, in April. 18(51 : entered 
the Confederate service and served as an officer throughout 
the war; in I8(j() was elected a member of the South 
Carolina legislature and intendant of Beaufort ; was a dele- 
gate to the national Democratic convention at St. Louis 
in 187() and 1888 ; was Democratic presidential elector for 
the State at large in 1880 ; was elected to the Fiftieth and 
Fifty-Second Congresses : received the certificate of election 
to the Fifty-First Congress, but was unseated liy the House ; 
was given the certificate of election to the Fifty-Fourth 
Congress, but was unseated June 4, 181)(). and the seat given 
to his Republican opponent ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth 
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 4.052 votes, against 2.478 
votes for Geo. W. Murray, Republican, and 178 votes for 
Cecil Cohen. Regular Republican. He represents the first 
district of South Carolina, which includes the counties of 
Charleston, Georgetown, and Beaufort, and the townships 
of Anderson, Hope. Indian, Kings. Laws, Mingo, Penn, 
Ridge, Sutton, and Turkey, of the county of Williamsburg; 
the townships of Collins, Adams Run. (ilover. Frazier, 
Lowndes, and Blake, of the county of Colleton ; and all of 
the county of Berkeley except such townships as are em- 
braced in the seventh congressional district. 




WILLIAM R. ELLIS 



WILLIAM R. ELLIS 



William R. Ellis, of Heppner. was born near Wave- 
land. Moutgomeiy County. Ind., April 23, 1850: removed 
to Guthrie County. Iowa, in 1.S55 : worked on a farm and 
attended district school until he was eighteen years of 
age : divided his time lietween teaching country school 
and working on a farm until after arriving at majority ; 
attended school for a while at the Iowa State Agricul- 
tural College, at Ames. Iowa : graduated from the law 
department of the Iowa State University, at Iowa City. 
in June, L874 ; practiced law and engaged in newspaper 
work at Hamburg. Iowa ; served two years as city attorney 
and one term as mayor of that city : reiuoved to Oregon 
in 1883 ; has lived in Heppner since 1884; served one term 
as county superintendent of schools and three terms as dis- 
trict attorney of the seventh judicial district of Oregon : was 
elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses and 
reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiv- 
ing 12,617 votes, against 12.239 votes for Martin Quinn, Pop- 
ulist, 8,807 votes for H. H. Noi-thup, Independent or bolting 
Republican. 7,099 votes for A. S. Bennett. Democrat, and 
775 votes for F. McKercher, Prohibitionist. He represents 
the second congressional district of Oregon, which has a 
population of 158.205, and embraces the fifteen counties of 
Baker, ('rook, Clatsop. Columbia. Gilliam, Grant. Harney. 
Malheur, Morrow. Multnomah, Sherman, Umatilla. Union, 
Wallowa, and Wasco. 



DANIEL ERMENTROUT 



Daniel Ermentrout, of Reading, was born at Reading, 
Berks County, Pa.. January 24, 1837, and has contiuued to 
reside there since ; was educated in the public and classi- 
cal schools of his native city, Franklin and Marshall College. 
Lancaster, and Elmwood Institute, Norristown, Pa. ; studied 
law. and was admitted to practice in the courts of Berks 
County in August, 1859 ; was elected district attorney of 
Berks County for three years in 1862 ; was solicitor for 
the city of Reading 1867-70 ; was elected to the State 
senate of Pennsylvania in 1873 for a term of three years, 
and reelected in 1876 for four years; was a member of 
the board of school control of Reading for many years ; 
was appointed in October, 1877, liy Governor Hartranft. a 
member of the Pennsylvania statuary commission ; was 
several times chairman of the Democratic county com- 
mittee of Berks ; delegate to various State and national 
conventions ; was in 1880 elected as a Democrat to repre- 
sent Berks County, then constituting the eiglith con- 
gressional district of Pennsylvania, in the Forty-Seventh 
Congress, and successively in the Forty-Eighth, Forty- 
Ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses, his services ending March 
4, 1889 ; served on the House committees on accounts, 
banking and currency, military affairs, jjost office and 
post-roads, and was chairman of committee on election 
of President and Vice-President; was elected in 1896 as a 
Democrat to represent Berks and Lehigh Counties, consti- 
tuting the ninth congressional district of Pennsylvania, in 
the Fifty-Fifth Congress, receiving 26,123 votes, against 
23,022 votes for Williams, Republican. He represents the 
ninth congressional district of Pennsylvania, which em- 
braces the two counties of Berks and Lehigh. 




WALTER EVANS 



WALTER EVANS 



Walter Evans, of Louisville, who. in the Fifty-Fifth 
Congress, represented the fifth district of Kentucky, was 
born in Barren County, that State, on September IS, 1842. 
His father was Joseph Warder Evans, a native of Fauquier 
County, Va. His mother, Matilda Ritter. a daughter of 
John Ritter, also a native of Virginia, was the sister of 
the Hon. B. C. Ritter. a member of the Thirty-Ninth Con- 
gress from Kentucky. At an early age he moved with 
her to Buena Vista Springs in Logan County, and when 
nine years old first went to school to William A. Wash- 
ington, a cousin of (General Washington. His education 
was ol)tained at the common country schools in Logan. 
Todd, and Christian Counties. He had no collegiate oppor- 
tunities, though always an ardent and industrious student. 
He began business as a deputy county clerk in Hopkins- 
ville. about Christmas. LSBd. He entered the Federal army 
in September. 1861. and was elected second lieutenant of 
Company C. Twenty-Fifth Kentucky Lifantry. of which 
Gen. James M. Shackelford w'as colonel and Benjamin 
H. Bristow (afterwards Secretary of the Treasury) was 
lieutenant-colonel. He commanded Company G of his reg- 
iment at Fort Donelson and in Grant's expedition up the 
Tennessee River. He resigned shortly afterwards, his reg- 
iment being consolidated with the Seventeenth Kentucky, 
after which he entered tlie circuit clerk's office at Hop- 
kinsville, and resumed his law studies at night, having 
no opportunity to have a preceptor. He was licensed in 
1864, and continued the practice at Hopkinsville until his 
removal to Louisville in 1874. and has continued it there 
ever since. An ardent Republican, he was elected to the 



WALTER EVANS 

legislature from Christian County in 1S71, and to the State 
senate in 1878, defeating for this latter position Hon. James 
A. McKenzie, afterwards member of Congress and min- 
ister to Peru ; was the Repu]:)licau nominee for Congress 
in 1876, and the nominee of that party for governor in 
1879, but was defeated by Dr. Luke P. Blackburn, after an 
active canvass. He was a delegate to the national Repub- 
lican conventions in 1868, 1872, 1880, and 1884. He led the 
Kentucky forces of General Grant in 1880. and was one of 
the most earnest of the o(>G who fought the battle for him 
at Chicago. In 1883 President Arthur appointed him com- 
missioner of internal revenue, from which office he retired 
on the coming in of President Cleveland. In 1894 he was 
elected to the Fifty-Fourth Congress, wherein he served 
on the Ways and Means Committee, and took an active 
pai't in all its great work. He was reelected to the Fifty- 
Fifth Congress, and on the same committee assisted in the 
work before it growing out of the enactment of the Ding- 
ley tariff bill, and much internal revenue legislation. He 
took an active part in all of the questions growing out of 
the war with Spain and the legislation necessary to carry 
it on. Always one of the foremost advocates of a pro- 
tective tariff and of a sound currency, to his early advo- 
cacy of the gold standard was due much of the strength 
of that doctrine in Kentucky, particularly in his own dis- 
trict. An ardent admirer of Mr. Lincoln, he introduced 
and vigorously, though unsuccessfully, insisted upon a bill 
to erect for him an adequate monument in the city of 
Washington. Mr. Evans was married in June. 1868, to 
Miss Louise Gowen. at Hopkinsville, a daughter of John B. 
Gowen, a prominent citizen, who had several times been 
sheriff and subsequently postmaster at Hopkinsville. Of 
their two children, a daughter survives. He represents the 
fifth district of Kentucky, which has a population of 188,- 
598, and embraces Jefferson County. 




GEORGE W. PARIS 



GEORGE W. FARIS 



George W. Faris, of Terre Haute, was born on a farm 
in Jasjjer County, Ind., June 9, 1854 ; his early life was 
spent on a farm in Pulaski County. Ind.. where he worked 
until eighteen years of age; in 1872 he entered A.sbury 
University, and graduated with his class in 1S77 : his 
father having met with financial reverses, the son was 
obliged to make his own way at college, which he did by 
teaching school, keeping up with his college studies in the 
meantime, and spending part of each year with his class ; 
read law. was admitted to the bar. and has since practiced 
his profession; in 1884 was the Republican nominee for 
the circuit judgeship, but was defeated by the slender ma- 
jority of 270 votes ; has been active in Republican politics, 
but never held any public office ; was elected to the Fifty- 
Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a 
Republican, receiving 25,270 votes, against 24.915 votes for 
John Clark Ridpath, Fusionist. He represents the fifth 
congressional district of Indiana, which has a population 
of 1 7(i.657, and which embraces the seven counties of Clay, 
Hendricks, Morgan, Parke, Putnam, Vermilion, and Vigo. 




LUCIEN J. FENTON 



LUCIEN J. FENTON 



LuciEN J. Fenton. of Winchester, was born near Win- 
chester. Ohio, May 7, 1844: was educated in the public 
schools, at the Lebanon Normal School, and at the Ohio 
University, Athens ; assisted in the work on his father's 
farm until the beginning of the late war: enlisted in the 
Ninety-First Ohio Kegiment August 11. LS(j2. and served con- 
tinuously in the field until permanently disabled by a gun- 
shot wound at the battle of Winchester. Va., September 19 
1864 ; was a teacher and superintendent of public schools iu 
Ohio for a number of years, serving a portion of the time as 
one of the school examiners for Adams County; was awarded 
a high-school life certificate by the Ohio State board of 
school examiners in 1878 : was the Republican candidate for 
clerk of the courts of Adams County in 1880, reducing con- 
siderably the then large Democratic majority in the county; 
was appointed to a position in the customhouse, New 
Orleans, La., in December, 1880, by Hon. John Sherman, then 
Secretary of the Treasury : organized the Winchester Bank 
in 1884. and still retains connection therewith ; was ap- 
pointed a trustee of the Ohio University by Governor Mc- 
Kinley in 1892 : was a delegate to the national Republican 
convention at Minneapolis in 1892 ; was elected to the Fifty- 
Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a 
Republican, receiving 24.809 votes, against 18.029 votes for 
T. S. Hogan, Democrat. He represents the tenth congres- 
sional district of Ohio, which has a population of 178,921, 
and which embraces the six counties of Adams, Gallia, Jack- 
son. Lawrence, Pike, and Scioto. 




ISRAEL F. FISCHER 



ISRAEL F. FISCHER 



Israel F. Fischer, of Urooklyn, was boru in the citj' of 
New York, August 17, 1858; removed to Brooklyn, Septem- 
ber, 1887, and has resided in the twenty-sixth ward of that 
city since; was admitted to the Itar in December. l.S7i) ; 
was a member of the executive committee of the Repub- 
lican State committee during 1888 and 1890 ; was chairman 
of the executive committee of the county for two years 
and chairman of the campaign committee in 188S ; was 
elected to the Fifty-Fourtli and reelected to the Fifty- 
Fifth Congress as a Republican, receiving 25,810 votes, 
against 18.381 votes for Thomas F. Larkin, Organization 
Democrat, and 1,036 votes for F. D. Nye. National Demo- 
crat. He represents the fourth congressional district of 
New York, which has a population of 169.387, and embraces 
the eighth, twelfth, tw^enty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty- 
sixth wards of the city of Brooklyn, together with the 
towns of New Utrecht, Gravesend, and Flatlands. 




JOHN F. FITZGERALD 



JOHN F. FITZGERALD 



John F. Fitzgerald, of Boston, was born in Boston 
February 11. liS()5 ; he received his education in the Eliot 
Grammar and the Boston Latin schools and Boston Col- 
lege, after which he pursued a short course of study at 
Harvard College ; is engaged in real estate and insurance ; 
was a member of the Boston common council of 1892 ; 
was elected a member of the Massachusetts State senate 
in 1893 and 1894 ; was vice-president of the Democratic 
city committee of Boston in 1892 and 1893 ; is a member 
at large of the Democratic State committee of Massachu- 
setts, and a member of its executive committee ; was 
elected to the Fifty-Fourth Congress as a Democrat, being 
the only Democratic Congressman in that Congress from 
New England, as he is in the Fifty-Fifth, to which he 
was reelected, receiving 13.979 votes, against 7,S19 votes 
for Walter L. Sears. Republican, 3,238 votes for John A. 
Ryan, Independent Silver candidate, and 503 votes for 
Hammond T. Fletcher, Independent Republican. He repre- 
sents the ninth congressional disti'ict of Massachusetts, 
which has a population of 177.517, and embraces the 
first, second, third, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and thir- 
teenth wards of the city of Boston, and the town of Win- 
throp. 




THOMAS Y. FITZPATRICK 



T. Y. FITZPATRICK 



T. Y. FiTZPATRicK, of Prestonbuig. was horn in Floyd 
County, Ky., September 20, 1850 ; was educated in the com- 
mon schools; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 
1877; has filled the positions of county judge, county attor- 
ney, and representative in the State legislature ; was 
Democratic elector in 1884, and was elected to the Fifty- 
Fifth Congi-ess as a Democrat, receiving 17.578 votes, 
against 16,381 votes for John W. Langley, Republican. He 
represents the tenth congressional district of Kentucky, 
which has a population of 149.058, and embra.ces the 
sixteen counties of Breathitt, Clark, Elliott, Estill, Floyd, 
Johnson, Knott, Lee, Martin, Nagoftin, Menifee, Montgom- 
ery, Morgan, Pike, Powell, and Wolfe. 




WILLIAM H. FLEMING 



WILLIAM HENRY FLEMING 



William Henry Fleming, of Aiignsta, was born at 
Augusta, Eichmoud Count}'. Ga., ou October 18, 1856 ; was 
brought up in the country a few miles from the city, and 
for a number of years after the war worked on the farm ; 
was educated at Summerville Academy, Richmond (County) 
Academy, and the State University at Athens. Ga., from 
which institution he received the degrees of Civil Engineer 
and Master of Arts ; was chosen private anniversarian of 
the Phi Kappa Society in 1873; was awarded junior deleters' 
medal in 1874 ; was awarded the college medal for the best 
essay, and was chosen commencement orator for the Phi 
Kapim Society in 1875 ; in the military department of the 
college was appointed captain of the hrst company, and 
for two years held the battalion prize for the best drilled 
company ; while in college earned a small salary for part 
of the time by acting as college postmaster, and afterwards 
was appointed a salaried tutor while an undergraduate ; also 
received assistance from Alexander H. Stephens by a loan 
of money, which was afterwards repaid with interest; was 
elected superintendent of the public schools of Augusta 
and Richmond County, Ga., in January. 1877, and resigned 
in August, 1880 ; was admitted to the bar in Novembei", 
1880, having studied law in the office of Hon. John T. Shew- 
make, and has continued in regular practice since; was 
elected to the State legislature from Richmond County in 
1888, 1890. and 1892. and was chairman of the- finance com- 
mittee ; again elected in 1894, and was speaker of the house ; 
in April, 1894, sustained a severe and almost fatal injury 



WILLIAM HENRY FLEMING 

by a kick in the face by a runaway horse ; was elected 
president, of the Georgia State bar association in 1894, and 
at the annual meeting in 1S1)5 delivered an address on 
the "Ethics of the Bar in Relation to the State"; was 
chosen in 1895 grand commander of the Knights Templar 
for the State of Georgia ; was elected to the Fifty-Fifth 
Congress as a Democrat, receiving 10,119 votes, against 
7,105 votes for John T. West, Populist. He represents the 
tenth district of Georgia, which has a population of 160,758, 
and embraces the eleven counties of Columbia, Glascock, 
Jefferson, Hancock, Lincoln. McDuffie, Bichmond, Taliaferro, 
Warren, Washington, and Wilkinson. 




LOREN FLETCHER 



LOREN FLETCHER 



LoREN Fletcher, of Minneapolis, was born at Mount 
Vernon, Kennebec Count}', Me., April 10, 1833 ; was edu- 
cated in public schools and Maine Wesleyan Seminar}', 
Kents Hill, Me. ; in l8-")3 removed to Bangor, where he 
was employed as clerk by a mercantile and lumber com- 
pany; in 1856 removed to Minneapolis, Minn., where he 
has since resided, engaged in manufacturing and mercan- 
tile pursuits, largely in the manufacture of lumber and 
flour; was elected to the State legislature m 1S72, and 
reelected seven times ; the last three terms served as 
speaker, having lieen unanimously elected the last term ; 
was elected to the Fifty-Third and Fifty-Fourth Congresses 
and reelected to tlie Fifty-Fifth Congress, receiving 24,508 
votes, against 21.521 votes for Sidney M. Owens, Populist 
and Democrat (fusion). 742 votes for J. Arthur Sanburn. 
Prohiliitionist. and 501J votes for Herbert P. Shaw, Social- 
ist Labor. He represents the fifth congressional district 
of Minnesota, which has a population of 185,294, and con- 
sists of Hennepin County. 




WALLACE T. FOOTE, Jr. 



WALLACE TURNER FOOTE, Jr. 



Wallace Turner Foote, Jr., of Port Henry, Essex 
County, was born at Port Henry, April 7, 1864 ; received 
his early education at Port Henry Union Free School ; 
prepared for college at Williston Seminary, East Hampton, 
Mass., and graduated as civil engineer from Union College, 
Schenectady, with honors, in 1S85 ; was elected alumni 
trustee of that university in LS96 ; was assistant superin- 
tendent of the Cedar Point Furnace at Port Henry from 
1885 to 1887; entered Columbia Law School in 1889, and 
then commenced the practice of law at Port Henry ; has 
since followed that profession, and is now at the head of 
the firm of Foote. Stokes & Owen, doing a general law 
business at that place ; was elected to the Fifty-Fourth 
and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a Republican, 
receiving 30,475 votes, against 494 votes for W. A. Hup- 
puch, National Democrat, and 452 votes for De Wyre S. 
Fero, Populist. He represents the twenty-third congi'es- 
sional district of New York, which has a population of 
191,155, and embraces the live counties of Clinton, Essex, 
Franklin, Warren, and Washington. 




GEORGE EDMUND FOSS 



GEORGE EDMUND FOSS 



George Edmund Foss. of Chicago, was born at Berk- 
shire, Franklin County, Vt., July 2. 1S63 ; graduated from 
Harvard College in 1885 ; attended the Columbia Law 
School and School of Political Science in New York City, 
and graduated from the l-nion College of Law of Chicago in 
1889. receiving the degree of LL. B. : admitted to the bar the 
same year and began the practice of law in Chicago ; never 
held any political office until elected to the Fifty-Fourth 
Congress and was reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress as a 
Republican, receiving 41,510 votes, against 21.170 votes for 
Olaf E. liay. Silver Democrat. 541 votes for M. W. Rolunson. 
Oold Democrat, 478 votes for J. C. Ambrose, Prohibitionist, 
and 43 votes scattering. He represents the seventh congres- 
sional district of Illinois, which has a i^opulation of 143.704, 
and embraces the fourteenth, fifteenth, and twenty-seventh 
wards and part of the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth wards 
of the city of Chicago, and the towns of Barriugton, Evans- 
ton, New Trier, Niles. Northfield. Palatine, and Wheeling, of 
Cook County, and all of the county of Lake. 




CHARLES N. FOWLER 



CHARLES NEWELL FOWLER 



Charles Newell Fowler, of Elizabeth, was born at Lena, 
IlL, November 2, 1S5'2; graduated from Yale University in 
LS76 and from the Chicago Law School in 1S78; was elected 
to the Fifty-Fourth and reelected to the Fifty-Fifth Congress 
as a Republican, receiving 25,131 votes, against 18.4S7 votes 
for Willey, Democrat ; 448 votes for Wilson, Prohibitionist ; 
1,085 votes for Noyes, National Democrat, and 572 votes for 
Campbell, Socialist Labor. He represents the eighth con- 
gressional district of New Jersey, which has a population f»f 
125,793. and embraces part of Essex, part of Hudson, and 
Union. 



